English-Hungarian translations for figurative

jelképesVégezetül: a "to cost the earth” köznyelvi fordulatot, amelyet mi, angol anyanyelvűek vidám lemondással használunk jelképesen arra, hogyha valami nagyon sokba kerül, most szó szerint kell érteni. I conclude: the glib expression 'to cost the earth' which we - English-language speakers anyway - use figuratively with gay abandon now needs to be taken literally.
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Of use as a metaphor, simile, or metonym, as opposed to literal; using figures; as when saying that someone who eats more than they should is a pig or like a pig
Metaphorically so called
Emblematic, symbolic; representative, exemplative
representing forms recognisable in life and clearly derived from real object sources, in contrast to

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