In this episode, Amy asks many rhetorical questions of “hyperbole” and Ryan tries to avoid insubstantial insults with “slight“.

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2 comments on Episode 84: Slight Hyperbole

  1. Ann Young says:

    Thanks to Amy for providing a phrase that accurately describes the feeling that many of us in the USA have been feeling for the last four years. “horrified car crash viewing”. And it ain’t over yet.

  2. Patrick Paulsen says:

    The word ‘parable’ is pretty much the same thing Para + bole = ‘to throw alongside”

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