etic Idiom, Proverb
copesetic
wax poetic
poetic justice
Idiom(s): poetic justiceTheme: JUSTICE
the appropriate but chance receiving of rewards or punishments by those deserving them.
• It was poetic justice that Jane won the race after Mary tried to get her banned.
• The car thieves stole a car with no gas. That's poetic justice.
Like Chinese arithmetic
If something is complicated and hard to understand, it's like Chinese arithmetic.anesthetic
anestheticanesthetic to
incapable of feeling or responding to
poetic license
poetic licenseAlso, artistic license. The liberty taken by a writer or artist in deviating from conventional form or fact to achieve an effect. For example, I've never seen grass or a tree of that color; but that's artistic license. [Late 1700s]
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