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but it worked in slithy's example, "here comes the law" when you see a policeman, or "now starts the deluge" when you feel a few drops of water, (or have your first drink at a party where some one else is paying!) in these cases, the whole is represented by the part...just as "100 head of cattle" doesn't just mean you have heads mounted on the wall, it mean you have 100 cattle, head to tail.
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Rhetorical Term
Verlangen 07/14/2002 12:14 AM ![]()
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Gk. "to take with something else"
belligerentyouth 07/14/2002 11:12 AM ![]()
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