Professional Documents
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Figures of Speech
Figures of Speech
6. A fool can no more see his own folly than he can see his ears.
8. A fleet of 40 sails
18. How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth, stolen on his wing me three and twentieth year.
21. Last week I saw a woman flayed, and you will hardly believe how much it altered her person for
the worse.
22. He is not the brightest person in the world.
23. We are caught in war, wanting peace. We are torn by division, wanting unity.
24. A reeling road, a rolling road that rambles around the shire
25. We’ll see you when you get back from image enhancement camp.
26. You have got a prime figure. You really have, you know.
27. Industrial action, unlawful combatant, courtesy reminder, mentally deficient, relieve misery, full-
figured, of modest means, handicapped, sanitation worker, be at rest, past one’s prime, under-
achiever, maintenance worker
29. Someday you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.
33. I think we’ve reached a point of great decision, not just for our nation, not only for all humanity,
but for life upon the earth.
36. The lawyers were waiting for a decision from the bench.
40. Good friends are hard to find, harder to leave, and impossible to forget.
45. Money is a bottomless sea, in which honor, conscience and truth may be drowned.
50. A righteous man shall be like a tree, planted by the rivers of water, that brings forth its fruits in its
season.
58. The conflict between reformers and dinosaurs has never been so raw or exposed.
62. ….but current thinking suggests that as we sail into the next millennium, we may want to batten
down the hatches. It looks like we are in for nasty weather.
63. A message say so merely confirms a piece of news some secret vein had already received,
severing from me an irreplaceable part of myself, letting it loose like a kite on a broken string.
That is why, walking across the school campus on this particular December morning, I keep
searching the sky as if I expected to see a lost pair of kites hurrying towards heaven.
66. I lost my wallet and the key to the apartment last night. Was I lucky enough?
67. What flower does everybody have on their face? Everybody has tulips on their face.
68. Thinking logically, speaking eloquently, and writing explicitly are important elements of good
communication.
69. Now is the time to forget everything in the past. Now is the time to get down to business. Now is
the time to work hard for the future.