figure of speech

英 [ˌfɪɡər əv ˈspiːtʃ]

美 [ˌfɪɡjər əv ˈspiːtʃ]

n. 修辞格; 修辞手段

牛津词典

noun

修辞格；修辞手段
a word or phrase used in a different way from its usual meaning in order to create a particular mental picture or effect

N-COUNT 比喻;修辞格
Afigure of speechis an expression or word that is used with a metaphorical rather than a literal meaning.
1. Of course I'm not. It was just a figure of speech.
  我当然不是，这不过是打个比方。

noun

Parallelism is the most commonly used English speech in one of the figure of speech.
排比是演说中英语最常用的修辞格之一。
Hyperbole is a commonly-used figure of speech.
夸张辞格是一种常用的修辞手法。
Think "broken heart" is just a figure of speech?
觉得心碎只是一个比喻修辞说法？
Jesus used this figure of speech, but they did not understand what he was telling them.
耶稣将这比喻告诉他们。但他们不明白所说的是什么意思。
We request that no flowers be sent. What's the figure of speech of the sentence?
敬辞花圈〔讣文中用语〕。这句话用了什么修辞格？
Analogy is a common rhetorical figure of speech, is an important way of stylistic rhetoric.
比喻，是修辞学上常见的修辞格之一，是一种重要的文体修辞手法。
Using a figure of speech appropriate to her occupation.
使用比喻乃基于她的职业使然。
I didn't really mean she was in outer space it's just a figure of speech.
我不是说她真在外层空间&这只是打个比方。
In other words you come to understand what language is I figured it out but of course in rhetorical theory figure is precisely a figure of speech.
换句话说，你开始明白了语言的本质，我想通了，但当然，在修辞学理论中，描绘，恰恰指一种比喻。
I thought it was a figure of speech.
我把他的话当作一个比喻。