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Persian Learner Posted 9 years ago
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Metaphorical
Hi.
Everyone breathed a metaphorical sigh of relief.
What does the underlined part mean?
Everyone breathed a metaphorical sigh of relief.
What does the underlined part mean?
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Everyone breathed a metaphorical sigh of relief. What does the underlined part mean? It means almost nothing.
- Everyone breathed a metaphorical sigh of relief.
- What does the underlined part mean?
- It means almost nothing.
- The word 'metaphorical' was probably added to indicate that the "sigh of relief" was not literally a sigh of relief or a sigh of any kind, which would be audible, but rather that everyone felt relieved (silently, mentally).
- The expression "sigh of relief" is so often used metaphorically, however, that it was hardly necessary for the writer to make a special note of it.
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Persian LearnerHi.Everyone breathed a metaphorical sigh of relief. What does the underlined part mean?It means almost nothing. The word 'metaphorical' was probably added to indicate that the "sigh of relief" was not literally a sigh of relief or a sigh of any kind, which would be audible, but rather that everyone felt relieved (silently, mentally). The expr
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