"over" hyperbole.

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  • mikotondria30

    Exactly - a nice big, rounded, imprecise figure.
    You're saying that you don't want to be that precise by prefixing the amount with an 'over'. So to then go on and use a very precise figure, eg 7, or 157 is ludicrous.
    If he were alive today, controversial ex Queen frontman Freddie Mercury would have been far more vocal than I, and probably worn an outrageous leather one-piece that emphasized his man-parts using textured fabric inlays and highlighting appliques when he voiced his growing displeasure with the current trend in formulaic hyperbolic expression.

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