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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.
I am using a figure of speech to demonstrate the seriousness of the issue.
I hope that it was a figure of speech.
That was not claptrap; it was a figure of speech, and it happens to be true.
Nevertheless, allow me a reformulation that is not a figure of speech.
That, of course, is only a figure of speech: one does not usually shear lambs.
But there it was not merely a figure of speech—it was actually taking place.
I just used that as a figure of speech.