having nimble fingers literally or figuratively; especially for stealing or picking pockets.
The Special Curriculum is breaking new ground, literally and figuratively, and the students are embracing it with such zeal.
Cock and ducks fighting for food-used figuratively of struggle for Benefit Between Big and small men
In today's Gospel, Jesus visits a building-the Temple still under construction, and speaks figuratively of the new Temple-His Body.
The Uranian side of many Aquarians is predominant, and they are iconoclasts in one way or another. They foment rebellion - figuratively or literally - because Uranus drives them to seek freedom.
She is, figuratively speaking, holding a gun to his head.
To put away the pen and keep the mouth tight-used figuratively of a wise man
Mr Huckabee's weakness is the worry that he may be a lightweight figuratively as well as literally.
Mrs. Doctor was a trim rosy-cheeked, silver-haired little lady who took Anne at once to her heart, literally and figuratively.
It was great running with a group of people in varying shapes, literally and figuratively. It was also harder because now I sometimes had to finish a run when I didn't feel so great.
The word is used figuratively in the context.
It occurs to me that "Control your exit" is advice that's figuratively true, too.
Pep up your old system: What if a potential buyer wants to figuratively kick the tires of your PC before plunking down cash for it?
For one thing, the five New York Dons were in the old Sicilian tradition, they were "men with a belly" meaning, figuratively, power and courage; and literally, physical flesh, as if the two went together, as indeed they seem to have done in Sicily.
These verbs mean to set upon, physically or figuratively.
When you have a bitter taste in your mouth there is a sharp sensation that figuratively bites.
A fine remedy for our anxieties over our low status in society may be to travel—whether literally or figuratively, by viewing works of art—through the gigantic spaces of the world.要消除社會地位低下引起的焦慮，旅行可能是一個好方法，通過實際的旅行或在藝術作品中神遊，去感受世界的廣闊無垠。
It's a word you use when you say something that shouldn't just be interpreted figuratively.
It is an old custom in business circle that both sides should strike a plank to mean a deal was clinched. Now used figuratively to mean a final decision was made.
Watching a big soccer match can strain a fan's heart - not just figuratively, but literally, German researchers reported on Wednesday.
Employees will be, figuratively speaking, in the driver's seat.
Well, figuratively speaking.
More importantly, pointless graphics push the valuable details to the periphery - literally and figuratively.
At work, running on the spot (figuratively). A mirage of coffee is before me. Can I justify an espresso on the way to the bank?
The constant excitement of new challenges and not knowing what was around the next corner in Beijing -- both literally and figuratively -- kept him sharp.
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