figure of speech

In baseball parlance, that phrase is typically a figure of speech.

But it’s certainly more than a figure of speech.

“This is absolutely absurd. I believe that President Biden is aware of this. This is merely a figure of speech to support his incorrect strategy against Russia,” Mr. Putin said, according to Russian state-controlled media.

“That’s a figure of speech. The purse is the prize money. His winnings.”

The quincentennial likewise fueled critical works by Smith, such as her ongoing “I See Red” series, which embeds a pejorative term used to describe Indigenous people within a figure of speech about rage.