The cat sleeps, curled up and hiding his muzzle, as they say - to inclement and cold weather. A little furry friend sensitively recognizes the approach of bad weather. And now the clouds in the sky thickened, and the soul became uncomfortable and restless. The colors seemed to thicken in the sky, and it turned from pale blue into blue-black in a matter of minutes. In the same way, relationships between people change, like the color of the sky overhead. So, in the topic of today's publication, we will consider the meaning of the phraseologism "exaggerate".
Value of expression
What is it? The expression "exaggerate" is defined as a high degree of exaggeration of something. Phraseologism of this kind is quite often used in colloquial speech. Moreover, a person is unambiguously and consciously trying to portray or present something in a significantly worse light than it actually is. Moreover, it should be noted that a person in his story is trying to exaggerate precisely something bad ornegative.
Also, the expression "exaggerate" has an approximate meaning to such a word as "false", that is, this phrase still contains a certain amount of deceit and lies. In addition, there is an association associated with color, or rather with the transition of a certain color to a darker and more saturated shade.
Synonyms
There are a number of synonymous expressions for the expression "exaggerate", for example, such as "make an elephant out of a fly" or the equally popular and often used expression "much ado about nothing". In particular, you can also use as synonyms such words that are close in meaning to "our" phraseological turnover, such as inflate, exaggerate, exaggerate.
So, today there are quite a few ways to show your exaggeration, distorting it in a way that suits you. Of course, a person does not paint if he uses this phrase for selfish purposes, but after all, a lot depends on the life situation, and sometimes sometimes a slight fright will not hurt someone.
Associations and their role
Returning to the topic of association, I would like to note that the extreme breadth and universality of color associations occupies a certain place in a person's life, whether he wants it or not. Phraseological turnover "exaggerate" can be classified in the following and rather unusual way, using the words of the associative series.
So, what associations does the word evoke in a person"twisted"? The colors thickened - they became heavy, dark, hard, distant, barking, bitter, old man's, winter, sad. Moreover, we note that this list can be continued and made much longer. But we also note that, thanks to the association, it is worth making a conclusion, the result of which shows us that the expression “exaggerate” without explaining its lexical meaning already causes heavy emotions and restless sensations. After all, color associations are like conditioned reflexes, even a small child who does not have the necessary life experience and the necessary knowledge for this can feel it, he understands the meaning of this phraseological phrase on an intuitive level.
