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metaphorical | flourished | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
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] | TroFi.o.1510 | The explanation seems to be that Mr. Linh , though born in the north , spent most of his life in the south , where capitalism flourished until the Communists took over in 1975 . |
metaphorical | attacking | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
118,
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] | TroFi.o.243 | They suggested that their genetic variability may affect the infectiousness of the virus and its `` preference '' for attacking one type of cell over another . |
metaphorical | stumbled | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
16,
24
] | TroFi.o.3461 | But Sen. Quayle stumbled twice during the day trying to explain his decision to enter the National Guard in 1969 during the Vietnam War . |
literal | kill | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
86,
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] | TroFi.o.1868 | Rather , emphasis should be placed on sophisticated incapacitating agents that do not kill or maim but simply render people unconscious or unable to act . |
metaphorical | dissolved | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
90,
99
] | TroFi.o.626 | Mr. Stambaugh then moved to Florida and filed for divorce there ; a Florida circuit court dissolved the marriage but left the financial settlement to be determined elsewhere because the couple 's principal assets were Pennsylvania real estate . |
metaphorical | flourish | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
43,
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] | TroFi.o.1476 | Billion-dollar offerings could flounder or flourish on what Mr. Rudloff said . |
metaphorical | eat | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
41,
44
] | TroFi.o.861 | That 's because the auto shop decided to eat its words . |
metaphorical | destroyed | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
154,
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] | TroFi.o.486 | The point of view of the economist here misses the essential by being too technical , namely that the values associated with a free-market economy can be destroyed by the tax system . |
literal | killed | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
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] | TroFi.o.1913 | More than 80 people were detained in the protests , in which an estimated 14 people were killed . |
literal | killing | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
61,
68
] | TroFi.o.1968 | Iran retaliated by firing two missiles that struck Baghdad , killing or injuring an unspecified number of people . |
metaphorical | targeted | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
12,
20
] | TroFi.o.3559 | The EPA has targeted hundreds of sites across the country for cleanup of hazardous materials under its Superfund program . |
metaphorical | pump | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
51,
55
] | TroFi.o.2592 | The commission 's endorsement of using gambling to pump up Detroit 's economy was widely expected , and serves mainly to push the heated Detroit casino debate back to the city council . |
literal | flown | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
58,
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] | TroFi.o.1611 | The fare restructuring , aimed at tying prices to mileage flown , apparently will wipe away many of the bargain-basement fares currently available to leisure travelers , and make it likely that those travelers will pay $ 10 to $ 30 more on most fares . |
literal | drank | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
123,
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] | TroFi.o.745 | Its theme -- Peter dragging Russia out of the dank Dark Ages -- is vast and lofty , and perhaps only a man who dreamed and drank too much would have had the gumption to cut so wide and deep a swath into the heart of Russia . |
literal | dancing | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
105,
112
] | TroFi.o.407 | Television commercials expected to air in mid-April in New York and Miami will feature the homespun pair dancing the salsa , advertising sources said . |
metaphorical | rain | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
124,
128
] | TroFi.o.2664 | For the midrange computer makers , `` there are thunder clouds on the horizon , and the question is how hard it 's going to rain , '' she said . |
metaphorical | attacked | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
15,
23
] | TroFi.o.167 | His psyche was attacked first by New York Mets pitcher David Cone , who in print called his curveball `` high school , '' and then by A 's vet Don Baylor , who called him a `` choker , '' the ultimate ball-player insult . |
metaphorical | pouring | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
114,
121
] | TroFi.o.2555 | Oil prices continued to fall yesterday in trading torn by rumors and growing evidence that Saudi Arabian crude is pouring into the market . |
metaphorical | attack | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
133,
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] | TroFi.o.123 | But Mr. Dole has so far spent much of his campaign attacking Vice President Bush for , among other things , having the effrontery to attack Congress . |
metaphorical | eating | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
91,
97
] | TroFi.o.891 | Some 16 % of surveyors for Zagat 's restaurant guide said they had felt the pinch and were eating out less often than last year . |
metaphorical | cool | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
228,
232
] | TroFi.o.284 | On the other hand , the potential for the dollar to resume its recent slide if the trade report is disappointing raises the possibility that the Federal Reserve could push interest rates higher , both to boost the dollar and to cool the economy . |
literal | drink | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
61,
66
] | TroFi.o.790 | `` A German , '' said Mr. Bradford , `` is just not going to drink beer out of a can . ''/'' |
metaphorical | flourish | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
238,
246
] | TroFi.o.1493 | The message Mr. Welch says he is sending , however , is that by cutting management layers and delegating responsibility , `` we are trying to create an atmosphere where people want to work , a nonbureaucracy where people have a chance to flourish . |
metaphorical | besieged | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
32,
40
] | TroFi.o.264 | The U.S. armed forces are being besieged these days -- not by foreign military aggressors -- but by aggressive consumer-product marketers . |
metaphorical | attacked | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
55,
63
] | TroFi.o.185 | MINOR MEMOS: Texas Sen. Gramm , who last year bitterly attacked federal financing of a weed center in North Dakota , pushes to establish a `` plant stress '' lab in Lubbock . . . . |
literal | sleeping | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
37,
45
] | TroFi.o.2991 | It could even store some first-class sleeping berths , says Mr. Newkirk . |
literal | fly | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
136,
139
] | TroFi.o.1630 | And party chairman Paul Kirk never bothered to call him at all on Tuesday , Mr. Jackson 's aides say , though he could find the time to fly to Boston to extol Mr. Bentsen . |
literal | drink | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
71,
76
] | TroFi.o.781 | The upper classes do not take food or water from them nor sit , eat or drink with them . |
metaphorical | evaporate | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
33,
42
] | TroFi.o.1006 | But the suit says such rights `` evaporate '' with the sale of his holding . |
metaphorical | stumbles | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
75,
83
] | TroFi.o.3497 | But while the Kremlin preaches openness , Russia 's $ 2.2 trillion economy stumbles along in darkness , its inner workings shrouded in secrecy and its inefficiencies masked by deceit , Western experts say . |
literal | pumping | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
39,
46
] | TroFi.o.2651 | The spokesman was n't able to quantify pumping capacity ; the refinery has a crude oil input capacity of 400 , 000 barrels a day , but runs between 250 , 000 barrels and 275 , 000 barrels a day . |
metaphorical | fly | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
7,
10
] | TroFi.o.1653 | Rumors fly at Smith Barney that its parent , Primerica , is disgusted and ready to sell the firm , though Primerica denies it . |
metaphorical | targeted | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
32,
40
] | TroFi.o.3553 | Plastics , an area that Dow has targeted for growth , contributed strongly to the results for the quarter and the year , Dow said . |
literal | flew | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
20,
24
] | TroFi.o.1375 | Air Midwest said it flew 12.7 million revenue passenger miles in February , a 5.3 % decrease from 13.4 million a year earlier . |
metaphorical | plow | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
37,
41
] | TroFi.o.2446 | He frets that industry 's failure to plow profits back into new capacity will constrain exports , considered by many economists as the brightest hope for maintaining U.S. growth , even if consumer spending weakens . |
metaphorical | stumbled | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
13,
21
] | TroFi.o.3486 | Sometimes it stumbled . |
literal | planting | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
111,
119
] | TroFi.o.2421 | The action began a few months ago when Fred Carr , First Executive 's chairman , moved to spruce up the lot by planting some grass . |
literal | rained | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
31,
37
] | TroFi.o.2686 | `` I was in the stands when it rained , '' said Victor Lespinasse , a floor broker for Dean Witter Reynolds , Chicago . |
metaphorical | besiege | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
112,
119
] | TroFi.o.253 | `` I 'd heard about Powelson from another classicist at the University of Maryland , and then Powelson began to besiege me with letters asking for an invitation , '' Mr. Ambrose says . |
metaphorical | stumbled | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
103,
111
] | TroFi.o.3466 | Chaus said it rebounded the next year , gaining other retail accounts , but since then the company has stumbled on a flurry of problems typical of those hurting the industry . |
metaphorical | melting | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
90,
97
] | TroFi.o.2196 | And as it does , the importance of the `` farm issue '' in next month 's Iowa caucuses is melting away like snow in a January thaw . |
literal | destroy | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
76,
83
] | TroFi.o.426 | Israel has agreed to develop an interceptor missile for the U.S. that would destroy short-range ground-to-ground missiles , state-owned Israel Aircraft Industries said . |
literal | drinking | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
89,
97
] | TroFi.o.811 | The trick is that it is midnight , and the ban on eating , smoking , having sex and even drinking water applies only to the daylight hours . |
metaphorical | withered | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
146,
154
] | TroFi.o.3722 | The combination was supposed to make First RepublicBank Texas 's dominant financial institution ; instead , its $ 24.1 billion loan portfolio has withered in the state 's hard-scrabble economy . |
literal | rained | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
52,
58
] | TroFi.o.2675 | Grain and soybean futures prices plunged because it rained in Iowa . |
metaphorical | attacks | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
99,
106
] | TroFi.o.248 | After a few years of relative calm , Burger King is about to start a new advertising campaign that attacks the way McDonald 's cooks . |
literal | melt | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
13,
17
] | TroFi.o.2177 | `` We had to melt it down with hot water , as hot as your head could stand , before we could comb the hair out , '' recalls Jennie Aguilar , a beauty-school instructor in Canoga Park , Calif . |
literal | fly | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
7,
10
] | TroFi.o.1638 | Chairs fly , Geraldo is bloodied , the governor is yelling `` outta my face , Noriega-breath ! `` while the vice president screams `` Read my lips , liberal man ! `` -RRB-/-RRB- |
metaphorical | targeted | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
21,
29
] | TroFi.o.3573 | `` Nothing less than targeted , mandated reductions in acid-rain emissions in the U.S . '' will satisfy Canada , Mr. Mulroney said in his prepared remarks . |
metaphorical | melted | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
12,
18
] | TroFi.o.2188 | Pounds have melted off , she says , during the months of one-night stands . |
literal | killed | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
121,
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] | TroFi.o.1887 | Army and medical rescue teams reached stricken Chinese villages in a remote area near Burma , where an earthquake Sunday killed more than 900 people . |
metaphorical | fly | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
241,
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] | TroFi.o.1645 | In early 1984 , some officers at New York 's Bankers Trust Co. devised a way for Mexico to shed some of its huge U.S. bank debt -- a plan remarkably similar to one embraced last week by Morgan Guaranty Trust Co. and Mexico -- but it did n't fly . |
metaphorical | plowing | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
158,
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] | TroFi.o.2492 | The downtown shop alone is grossing more than $ 1 million a year now , but the Shihs take salaries of only about $ 2 , 000 a month each from their business , plowing profits back into their drive to become the McDonald 's of the flower game . |
metaphorical | planted | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
16,
23
] | TroFi.o.2396 | Some mines were planted by the U.S.-backed guerrillas themselves . |
literal | sleep | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
119,
124
] | TroFi.o.2961 | On the show , he has threatened to broadcast the home phone numbers of port commissioners so that residents who ca n't sleep Sunday night can call them up and keep the officials awake . |
literal | withered | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
21,
29
] | TroFi.o.3724 | The drought that has withered crops in many states is tragic for farmers , but is unlikely to cause acute problems for the nation 's economy . |
metaphorical | dissolving | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
182,
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] | TroFi.o.644 | He acknowledges that some will see this as a threat to freedom , but he soothes: `` Liberation , however , comes in various forms , either by overthrowing the external compulsion or dissolving the inward objection through a change of will , through sublimation . ''/'' |
metaphorical | plowed | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
42,
48
] | TroFi.o.2481 | `` Because the ground had long since been plowed and planted , '' he writes , `` the harvest of disunion came quickly after the thunderstorm of Lincoln 's election . ''/'' |
literal | destroyed | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
124,
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] | TroFi.o.492 | When buried in landfills , the oxidizing agents react with metal salts in the soil , and the links between the polymers are destroyed . |
literal | eat | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
89,
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] | TroFi.o.866 | These waters are full of the fish , mollusks and small crustaceans that lobsters like to eat . |
literal | sleep | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
128,
133
] | TroFi.o.2946 | But the would-be happy warrior has become a disillusioned , despairing survivor: `` Although I was tired to death , I could not sleep , so removing my tin hat and ruffling my hair I stood up and looked over the front of my hole . |
metaphorical | melt | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
31,
35
] | TroFi.o.2175 | `` The risk is , business will melt away . ''/'' |
metaphorical | flooding | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
160,
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] | TroFi.o.1464 | The fact that Japanese applicants obtained nearly 25 % more awards than they did in 1986 has raised apprehensions in the Reagan administration that Japan is `` flooding '' the patent office with applications in the anticipation that it will gain a commercial advantage over U.S. firms in coming years . |
literal | flew | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
34,
38
] | TroFi.o.1397 | When a triumphant Michael Dukakis flew to Erie from the Democratic National Convention in July , they lined the exit from the airport and Perry Square downtown with signs -- not handmade but professionally printed -- saying `` Dukakis Wants Taxes For Abortion . ''/'' |
literal | destroy | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
91,
98
] | TroFi.o.448 | `` We are offering now to free them from their nightmares of security -- we do n't want to destroy Israel , we want to coexist . |
literal | killed | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
124,
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] | TroFi.o.1953 | `` Where I live , in Silkstone in Yorkshire , we just had a memorial service as we put up a monument for some kids who were killed underground about 100 years ago -- about 80 kids , three , four , and five years of age , '' she said . |
metaphorical | playing | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
120,
127
] | TroFi.o.2442 | He ignores the fact that if the defendants were less affluent , it is unlikely that either plaintiff or lawyer would be playing in this legalistic sweepstakes . |
metaphorical | stumbled | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
74,
82
] | TroFi.o.3488 | The accident began Sept. 13 , 1987 , when villagers in Goiania , Brazil , stumbled on some radiotherapy equipment abandoned by a former health clinic there . |
metaphorical | kill | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
65,
69
] | TroFi.o.1852 | But although negotiations have stalled , an agreement that would kill Shoreham while keeping Lilco whole is still likely , these persons said . |
literal | flying | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
209,
215
] | TroFi.o.1685 | In return it got to shape the festivities , glamorizing things with a sprinkling of film and rock music personalities -LRB- Jane Seymour , Pierce Brosnan and Ringo Starr supplied this year 's dazzle -RRB- and flying in a roster of writers and photographers for publicity . |
literal | eat | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
42,
45
] | TroFi.o.855 | Parasite infections of people who like to eat raw or undercooked fish are increasing , and the main cause is the rising population of seals and other protected marine mammals , scientists reported . |
literal | pouring | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
132,
139
] | TroFi.o.2547 | Here Mr. Brown plays barkeep mentor to Mr. Cruise , the wise old hand who teaches the pup how to succeed at the high-stakes game of pouring brew . |
metaphorical | cool | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
17,
21
] | TroFi.o.304 | `` They do it to cool off the market , so to speak , because they need the copper and when they 're buying they find themselves chasing the market upward , '' he said . |
literal | evaporated | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
106,
116
] | TroFi.o.1037 | The Nestle spokesman rebutted the anti-monopoly charge , noting that Perulac has only a 15 % share of the evaporated milk market . |
literal | sleep | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
89,
94
] | TroFi.o.2958 | Men , women and children are crammed into barracks painted institution-yellow inside and sleep two to a four-by-six-foot bunk , arranged in triple tiers . |
literal | plow | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
112,
116
] | TroFi.o.2444 | Bostonians have excuses about why their snow is worse: The snow is often wet and slippery , making it harder to plow ; narrow , winding roads , steep hills , numerous bridges and potholes make driving more treacherous . |
metaphorical | flourish | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
93,
101
] | TroFi.o.1473 | At the beginning of the book , Mr. Haraszti asks , `` Is freedom really necessary for art to flourish ? ''/'' |
literal | pumped | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
50,
56
] | TroFi.o.2603 | Gary Floyd , owner of Johnson 's Corner , says he pumped one million fewer gallons of diesel fuel in 1987 than a year earlier . |
literal | drank | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
2,
7
] | TroFi.o.743 | I drank Vodka , So did you '' and saw the doors opening to the glittering life of an octave-thundering concert pianist . |
literal | cooling | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
147,
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] | TroFi.o.331 | Company officials could n't be reached for elaboration , but Gary P. Smaby , who follows the industry for Needham & Co . , said he understood that cooling problems had developed that could delay delivery of the machine . |
metaphorical | pour | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
133,
137
] | TroFi.o.2516 | This at a time when Germany is already leading a new rush to subsidize perestroika -- last week Deutsche Bank closed an agreement to pour some $ 1.9 billion of aid into Moscow 's bottomless coffers . |
metaphorical | flourish | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
44,
52
] | TroFi.o.1485 | Industry consultants predict groupware will flourish because personal-computer software that helps individuals work better has n't noticeably increased the productivity of groups . |
literal | attack | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
147,
153
] | TroFi.o.138 | Prince Norodom Sihanouk , the former Cambodian leader , said this week he was withdrawing from the resistance because the Khmer Rouge continues to attack his forces along the Thai-Cambodia border . |
metaphorical | targeted | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
12,
20
] | TroFi.o.3549 | Mr. Lee has targeted three of the former Japanese banks . |
metaphorical | cooled | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
43,
49
] | TroFi.o.319 | The Oct. 19 stock market crash , however , cooled Home Group 's enthusiasm for the deal . |
literal | destroyed | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
19,
28
] | TroFi.o.457 | Arsonists in Haiti destroyed a Roman Catholic chapel in a slum in Port-au-Prince . |
literal | attacking | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
59,
68
] | TroFi.o.239 | These do n't protect anything and are n't designed to kill attacking guerrillas . |
literal | dissolve | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
55,
63
] | TroFi.o.594 | Do n't take them with orange juice . -LRB- They wo n't dissolve well. -RRB-/-RRB- |
literal | flown | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
202,
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] | TroFi.o.1612 | USAir , a unit of USAir Group Inc . , said its December traffic rose 14.2 % to 1.11 billion revenue passenger miles from the year-earlier 972.5 million revenue passenger miles , or one paying passenger flown one mile . |
literal | killed | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
43,
49
] | TroFi.o.1935 | The military said three soldiers also were killed when about 300 rebels attempted to overrun a 30-man government outpost . |
metaphorical | flooding | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
82,
90
] | TroFi.o.1465 | The protein , called CD4 , mimics the virus 's natural targets in the body , thus flooding the system with false targets and diverting the virus from its normal course of attack . |
metaphorical | targeted | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
68,
76
] | TroFi.o.3551 | Out of 2 , 500 patented Soviet technologies available , Lic-Con has targeted 10 for the U.S. market initially , including a ceramic spray-coating process ; a non-explosive powder for excavating rock ; and a water-resistant concrete binding agent . |
literal | dissolve | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
67,
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] | TroFi.o.593 | Consumers were n't particularly fond of its taste , and it did n't dissolve easily in cold milk . |
metaphorical | raining | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
9,
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] | TroFi.o.2695 | `` It 's raining proposals , not moisture , '' says Sen. Tom Daschle , Democrat of South Dakota . |
metaphorical | flourish | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
93,
101
] | TroFi.o.1474 | At the beginning of the book , Mr. Haraszti asks , `` Is freedom really necessary for art to flourish ? ''/'' |
literal | planted | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
107,
114
] | TroFi.o.2388 | Ms. Long clearly relishes the hands-on work of running a winery and overseeing the evolution of a vineyard planted to her specifications . |
metaphorical | raining | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
75,
82
] | TroFi.o.2691 | Others are Absolut Bravo -LRB- the accompanying photograph shows red roses raining down around the Absolut bottle -RRB- and Absolut Stardom -LRB- the bottle is lighted as if it were a theater marquee -RRB- . |
literal | planted | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
109,
116
] | TroFi.o.2378 | However , new-crop beans -- to be planted this spring -- were up on continued expectations that this year 's planted acreage wo n't exceed last year 's by much , analysts said . |
literal | evaporate | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
45,
54
] | TroFi.o.1015 | The low pressure causes liquid in the arm to evaporate and to be pulled into the pipe . |
metaphorical | destroy | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
197,
204
] | TroFi.o.446 | `` The Jew and the bank now dominate everything: Europe and enlightenment , the whole civilization and socialism -- especially socialism , for with its help the Jew will eradicate Christianity and destroy the Christian civilization . ''/'' |
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