What's a "figurative" hypocrite?

[Lily]

Could someone please 'splain that one to me?

 

[Admin.]

I believe that is someone that says one thing while doing the opposite but with their fingers crossed, probably

 

[Lily]

I believe that is someone that says one thing while doing the opposite but with their fingers crossed, probably

That's not "literal" hypocrisy?

 

[Admin.]

That's not "literal" hypocrisy?

I was just spit balling trying to guess at it, sounds like a brain fart, or someone swinging for the fences only to pop out.

 

[Lily]

I was just spit balling trying to guess at it, sounds like a brain fart, or someone swinging for the fences only to pop out.

It's what happens when people don't know what

"figurative" and "literal" mean. Sad!

 

[cw_]

Maybe as opposed to "literal"?
google says hypocritical talk is not a figure of speech.

Context is required. Could be a bad pun on the word 'figure'.

 

[Lily]

Maybe as opposed to "literal"?
google says hypocritical talk is not a figure of speech.

Context is required. Could be a bad pun on the word 'figure'.

Engrish is hard.

 

[Admin.]

"Figures don’t lie, but liars figure." Carroll D. Wright