Words similar to figurative

Example sentences for: figurative

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The illustrations are colorful (green and black, to be specific) and invariably illustrate the literal senses of idioms, which are by nature figurative: in other words, the illustration for raise the roof shows someone lifting the roof off a house.
The horn is the literal and figurative descendant of the post horn , the spiral horn that was carried by a mail coach to announce its arrival in a village and whose image is still the post office symbol in much of Europe.
Australian pidgin acquired a second negative, borak , used as an alternative to baal or in a figurative sense for humbug, nonsense, or rubbish, from Wathawurung, whence came also an exclamation merrygig well done and coolie , a derogatory term for a person who partnered an Aboriginal woman.
For example, a single Georgia informant used fatpoke meaning a `fat person,' which one might reasonably guess derives from analogy with slowpoke , or it may also be an r -less pronunciation and figurative use of fat pork , a dialect name for `fat back' or `salt pork.
But when you have paid it all, the New York City Department of Taxation and Finance taps you on a figurative shoulder, reminds you that the city also has an Unincorporated Business Tax, and states firmly that free-lance writers gotta pay this too.