figurative language examples

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Across
  1. 3. Everyone’s feeling under the weather
  2. 5. Entire plot or story represents a larger concept
  3. 8. The meteorologist was not prepared for the rain
  4. 9. Less is more
  5. 11. The sun smiled on the crowds at the beach
  6. 14. The living dead
  7. 15. Boom! Pop! Bang!
  8. 16. Repeat a word or phrase at the start of multiple phrases or sentences
Down
  1. 1. I made it on the plane by the skin of my teeth
  2. 2. You have 100 toys and won’t donate just 1? What a Scrooge!
  3. 4. They’ve been married for 1,000 years
  4. 5. Morning, could you please cooperate just this once?
  5. 6. Darling ducklings dance at dawn
  6. 7. A locked door represents a family’s secrets
  7. 10. Time is a thief
  8. 12. I spy with my little eye a wild pride of lions
  9. 13. The fist was like a mallet
  10. 17. What do you call a fake noodle? An impasta!