What type of figure of speech is it when you use " No holds barred " in a sentance?
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The type, I would say, is that it is a saying. 'No holds barred' meaning there's nothing to hold you back in your conflict, you can use whatever method you like.
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I would call "No holds barred" either a cliche or an idiom. "An idiom is an expression whose meaning is not compositional — that is, whose meaning does not follow from the meaning of the individual words of which it is composed. For example, the English phrase to kick the bucket means to die. A listener knowing the meaning of kick and bucket will not thereby be able to predict that the expression can mean to die. Idioms are often, though perhaps not universally, classified as figures of speech." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idiom
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I think it's an imperative sentence. Like a command. The understood words are "There are ....". "Don't do that" is another imperative sentence.
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