You were the one who said it was figurative. He never said that. Since you were confident to say that he DID say it figuratively, not that he MIGHT have said it figuratively, I'm asking YOU what YOU say it was a metaphor for Also * how is it rude? * colloquialism meaning what?
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No. As I’ve explained exhaustively already, I interpret that line as a common figure of speech. You are still taking it literally. What the figure of speech means is that B would not have happened if A had not happened first.
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But you then explained what you thought the figure of speech meant ... and your explanation was the same as the literal meaning of the phrase.
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whole lotta tweets here totally ignoring jules verne
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