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example
  1. 1 example — esp. 例え
  2. 2 simile, metaphor, allegory, fable, parable — esp. 喩え, 譬え
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Mastered counts as known everywhere (frontier, map, extension) but never appears in the quiz again. New wipes the review history for this item.

· examples

  • No matter what happens, I won't give up.

    sense 1 · example

  • You shouldn't have made such a remark even if you had been angry.

    sense 1 · example

  • It's apparently a metaphor for something uncatchable, light of body and fleet of foot.

  • Some English words have two spellings - "gray" and "grey", for example.

  • "A fish out of water" is a metaphor for being unable to use your talents due to a change of environment.

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