What figure of speech is the following statement?
"If you scratch my back, I'll scratch yours"
A friend said that to me today.
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Sign up to join this communityWhat figure of speech is the following statement?
"If you scratch my back, I'll scratch yours"
A friend said that to me today.
Looking around: Wiktionary calls it a "proverb," which isn't much help.
I view this as an idiom, and a published book agrees with me. Quote: