I just literally did a back-of-an-envelope calculation using a pen, grade 8 math skills and, well, the back of an envelope.
When was the last time did something similar?
A lot of people do exactly that when they have to give someone a phone number. You’ll see them pushing the buttons on an invisible phone.
When I made up an index for my book, I did it by using ------ index cards.
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I went through the book proof, page by page from the beginning, wrote each topic as it came up, filed it alphabetically, and added to it as necessary. At the end, I had a file card box full of index topics.
I’m sure you can do it using software, but I had a physical manuscript with no computer file version, so it was the easiest and quickest way to do it.
I never considered where the name might come from – and that is where it comes from – Index card - Wikipedia
We had a massive blizzard (the second highest snowfall in my city since they started keeping records) a couple weeks ago. Snow was piled up against doors, windows and on the roof. During the blizzard, my daughter got sick.
She was both figuratively and literally under the weather.
I’m literally using “literally” literally. RIGHT NOW.
I’ve never seen a good enough figure to literally do.
I went to the basement just for you, and kicked the bucket.
As a bonus, there were two of them, different colours. I chose the whiter shade of pail.
I know this isn’t exactly what the OP is requesting, but it fits the tone of the thread.
When I did some basement repair work a while back, it struck me that I was actually using duct tape on a duct for the first time ever.
mmm
This is also a stretch, but last time I was in London I wanted to walk from Fulham to Kensal Green, but I took a wrong turn and before I knew it the signs said I was in Chelsea and I literally said to myself “I don’t want to go to Chelsea” without realizing what I was saying until afterward.
Yeah, but think of all the lips that you could lick.
mmm
I didn’t want that, I just wanted to be a victim of overstretched legs.
I did this on purpose for a while. I once made a mountain out of a molehill - here’s a picture:
Using the term index for index cards itself is figurative. Index means to point, (hence index finger)–and those cards aren’t actually pointing at anything. So it’s still figurative.
Really, ALL language–except for maybe onomatopoeia–is figurative. That’s the nature of language.
Well, gee, then. You’ve just destroyed that rationale for this thread.