“There's millions of them”: hyperbole in everyday conversation
- 29 February 2004
- journal article
- Published by Elsevier in Journal of Pragmatics
- Vol. 36 (2) , 149-184
- https://doi.org/10.1016/s0378-2166(03)00116-4
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