0 an expression that uses words to mean something different than what they usually mean:
The title refers both to 'hyperbolae' as geometric design and as a figure of speech.
An oxymoron is a figure of speech that combines two contradictory terms.
That is not just a figure of speech.
And that is not a figure of speech.
I hope he will accept that that was a figure of speech.
It is of no use talking and imagining that it is only a figure of speech.
The first of these has now become a figure of speech; it is an unreality and a delusion.
I do not use it as a figure of speech.
