Figure of speech
Crossword Clue and Answers

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This clue in was most recently seen in the wild in The Sun Cryptic.

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Publications

  • The Sun Cryptic - Saturday, 4 Dec 2021
  • The Daily Mail Quick - Tuesday, 2 Nov 2021
  • The Sun Cryptic - Sunday, 25 Apr 2021
  • The Guardian Quick - Saturday, 13 Feb 2021
  • The Sun Cryptic - Friday, 22 Jan 2021
  • Evening Standard Easy Crossword - Friday, 25 Dec 2020
  • The Sun Cryptic - Tuesday, 15 Dec 2020
  • The Guardian Quick - Wednesday, 14 Oct 2020
  • The Sun Cryptic - Sunday, 20 Sep 2020
  • The Daily Mail Quick - Tuesday, 10 Dec 2019
  • The Guardian Quick - Tuesday, 25 Sep 2018
  • The New York Times Mini - Thursday, 26 Apr 2018

Crossword Answers

5 letters

TROPE
Language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense

IDIOM
The style of a particular artist or school or movement; "an imaginative orchestral idiom"

6 letters

SIMILE
A figure of speech that expresses a resemblance between things of different kinds (usually formed with `like' or `as')

8 letters

METAPHOR
A figure of speech in which an expression is used to refer to something that it does not literally denote in order to suggest a similarity