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quotes like "lull before the storm" and "silence is golden" are what kind of english speech?
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Anonymous quotes like "lull before the storm" and "silence is golden" are what kind of english speech? I'd say they both qualify as metaphors, as idioms and as fixed expressions. "The lull/calm before the storm" is a real meteorological phenomenon, but is applied to other parallel situations as a metaphor.
- Anonymous quotes like "lull before the storm" and "silence is golden" are what kind of english speech?
- I'd say they both qualify as metaphors, as idioms and as fixed expressions.
- "The lull/calm before the storm" is a real meteorological phenomenon, but is applied to other parallel situations as a metaphor.
- "Silence is golden" uses the word "golden" in a way that would not be found in all dictionaries.
- It has the typical form of a metaphor.
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Anonymousquotes like "lull before the storm" and "silence is golden" are what kind of english speech?I'd say they both qualify as metaphors, as idioms and as fixed expressions.
"The lull/calm before the storm" is a real meteorological phenomenon, but is applied to other parallel situations as a metaphor.
"Silence is golden" uses the
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