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irony
Subject:
- English First Additional Language
- English Home Language
a figure of speech in which one thing is said and another is to be understood; alternatively, one thing is said, but circumstances show that the opposite is the case (called situational irony), e.g. saying It is a good thing we came early when the cinema is almost empty.
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