The commission report says Liverpool's French director of football, Damien Comolli, had agreed with Evra's claim that it was a figure of speech.
It was a figure of the Virgin Mary, bone dry, atop a board, with a sign that proclaimed, "Yo Soy La Virgen de la Caridad" — "I am the Virgin of Charity".
(Back off -- it's a figure of speech).
No. It's a figure of speech, and I probably shouldn't have done it.
But we'll let that one slide because it was a figure of speech, and because Limbaugh was probably stoned at the time and hallucinating a trio of dirt-sucking zombies named "Zilch", "Zero" and "Nada" wandering through his studio in search of brains.
It's a figure of speech to talk about losing one's mind, but the idea takes on new and awful meaning when it actually happens -- when language and concepts and sense of where and who you are begin to deteriorate and you slowly lose the faculties you've always taken for granted.
It's a figure of speech for a reason!
Heart rate varies from person to person so it is a figure that is of interest compared only with an individual's other readings.
From what we understand it is a figure in the tens of millions of dollars.
As the historian Jan Assmann puts it: "Moses is a figure of memory, not of history, whereas Akhenaten is a figure of history, but not of memory".
