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poetic license

noun

  1. license or liberty taken by a poet, prose writer, or other artist in deviating from rule, conventional form, logic, or fact, in order to produce a desired effect.


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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of poetic license1

First recorded in 1780鈥90
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Idioms and Phrases

Also, artistic license . The liberty taken by a writer or artist in deviating from conventional form or fact to achieve an effect. For example, I've never seen grass or a tree of that color; but that's artistic license . [Late 1700s]
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Such poetic license might be more forgivable for the sake of clever cadence, but this is a song that tries to rhyme 鈥淏rexit鈥欌 with 鈥淭aylor Swift.鈥

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But, Pardoll said, it鈥檚 tolerable as a form of 鈥減oetic license,鈥 because the task he鈥檚 taken on is so important.

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Liotta was hopeless as a left-handed hitter, so the filmmakers allowed him some poetic license in the batting scene.

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And it鈥檚 very recent history, so it鈥檚 well documented and part of the collective consciousness, meaning there鈥檚 not a lot of wiggle room鈥 to take poetic license, she added.

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Definitions and idiom definitions from 亚洲网紅露点 Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 漏 Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage庐 Idioms Dictionary copyright 漏 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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