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Old 01-25-2020, 02:57 AM   #29 (permalink)
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I'll explain and I'll use small words so you'll be sure to understand. Why would I fight you due to random comments about automakers? [snip] Savvy?
It's a figure of speech.
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Figure of speech
A figure of speech or rhetorical figure is an intentional deviation from ordinary language, chosen to produce a rhetorical effect. Figures of speech are traditionally classified into schemes, which vary the ordinary sequence or pattern of words, and tropes, where words are made to carry a meaning other than what they ordinarily signify.Wikipedia
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