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noun • 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 | ||||||||
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noun • the quality of being impossible to investigate | ||||||||
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METAPHOR which was last seen in the The Guardian Cryptic crossword.
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METAPHOR
Updated: October 14, 2023
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