On Tue, 07 Mar 2006 15:49:04 +0000, Steve Firth
wrote:

|Dave Fawthrop wrote:
| On Tue, 07 Mar 2006 14:27:38 +0000, Steve Firth
| wrote:
|
|
| | Wrong as usual, the *project* did fall out of the Sky,
| ^^^^^^^^^
|
| |Utter bull****, point to a single report of a Brabazon ever "falling out
| |of the sky".
|
| ROTFLMAO He does not know the meaning of asterisks round a word.
|
|Used for emphasis, usually by people desperate top make an incorrect
|point. At no time did the Brabazon project fall out of the sky, it was
|simply mothballed then forgotten. Exaggeration of the type that you and
|Drivel are prone to is a gross distortion of fact.

metaphor

http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en...efine:metaphor
Definitions of metaphor on the Web:
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


| Reading comprehension classes are available free at your local further
| education establishment.

Perhaps GCSE English after that.

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