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Crossword-Clue: Figure of speech exemplified by "You held your breath and the door for me" 1 answer with 6 letters 💡

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ZEUGMA
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Hint 1 meaning
To boil with a continued bubbling or heaving and rolling, with noise.
Hint 2 anagram
POLAWL
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For the crossword clue “Figure of speech exemplified by "You held your breath and the door for me"”, our database currently lists only one answer that matches both the meaning of the clue and the required 6-letter length. This clue appears in: WSJ (The Wall Street Journal). Used 1 time in crossword archives (2018). That answer is ZEUGMA, a word frequently used in crossword puzzles when this legal context appears.

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