Bu makalede ingilizce abartılı veya mübalağa yaparken sık sık kullanılan ifadeleri okuyacaksınız.
Abartı kelimesi Yunanca bir kelimeden “aşırı” anlamına gelir, bir noktaya değinmek veya vurgu yapmak için aşırı abartmayı kullanan bir konuşma şeklidir.
Bu, hafife almanın tam tersidir. İngilizce abartılı örnekleri edebiyatta ve günlük konuşmada bulabilirsiniz.
Olayları gerçekte olduğundan daha dramatik hale getirmek için günlük konuşmada sıklıkla ingilizce abartı kullanırız. Bazen esprili olmak, bazen de diğer güçlü duyguları hedeflemek içindir.
İşte günlük konuşmalarda bulabileceğiniz birkaç yaygın ingilizce abartma örneği.
- Without hyperbole – This game is taking a long time.
- With hyperbole– This game is taking forever.
- Without hyperbole– This helmet is hurting my chin.
- With hyperbole– This helmet is killing me.
İngilizce abartılı ifadeler örnekleri
1 | Everyone knows that. |
2 | I’m dying of thirst. |
3 | I’m dying of hunger. |
4 | I’ll die without you. |
5 | He runs like the wind. |
6 | I was scared to death. |
7 | I’m dying of laughter. |
8 | This box weighs a ton. |
9 | He was dying of thirst. |
10 | He’s got tons of money. |
11 | I nearly died laughing. |
12 | Nothing can bother him. |
13 | She has tons of makeup. |
14 | I had a ton of homework. |
15 | My dad is always working. |
16 | My suitcase weighs a ton. |
17 | The car cost me millions. |
18 | We’re meeting after ages. |
19 | Christmas will never come. |
20 | He stared through my soul. |
21 | I can’t do anything right. |
22 | I will never say “never.” |
23 | Nobody can beat level six. |
24 | Tanya never stops talking. |
25 | He is older than the hills. |
26 | I’d move mountains for her. |
27 | My mom is going to kill me. |
28 | New York City never sleeps. |
29 | She is perfect in everyway. |
30 | These shoes are killing me. |
31 | This suitcase weighs a ton. |
32 | This was the best day ever. |
33 | Nothing can stop these guys. |
34 | He talks like a bullet train. |
35 | I’m addicted to buying books. |
36 | It’s the best day of my life. |
37 | She is as big as an elephant! |
38 | He’s as skinny as a toothpick. |
39 | My teacher is older than dirt. |
40 | The lesson was taking forever. |
41 | This knee brace is killing me. |
42 | We’ll be best friends forever. |
43 | Her brain is the size of a pea. |
44 | His brain is the size of a pea. |
45 | i am addicted to skateboarding. |
46 | Jasmine never forgets anything. |
47 | Shauna does everything for him. |
48 | That woman has no self-control. |
49 | I Love You to the moon and back. |
50 | I’m so angry, I could eat a hat. |
51 | Our neighbor is older than dirt. |
52 | They ran like greased lightning. |
53 | They’ve got more money than God. |
54 | He heard an ear-splitting shriek. |
55 | My 16th birthday will never come. |
56 | Phoebe would be content anywhere. |
57 | Your smelly socks can kill a rat. |
58 | I’m so hungry I could eat a horse. |
59 | I’m so hungry I could eat a horse. |
60 | There was an ear-splitting shriek. |
61 | We tried everything that we could. |
62 | He knows everything about Covid-19. |
63 | He loves you more than life itself. |
64 | He walked down the road to nowhere. |
65 | I can smell pizza from a mile away. |
66 | I will die if she asks me to dance. |
67 | My dad knows everything about cars. |
68 | That baby is the cutest thing ever. |
69 | That dog is the cutest thing alive. |
70 | The AC’s cold blast froze my blood. |
71 | I have a million things to do today. |
72 | She can have any boy that she wants. |
73 | She loves him more than life itself. |
74 | His new car cost a bazillion dollars. |
75 | I’m dead tired; I can sleep for days. |
76 | Janet worked her fingers to the bone. |
77 | Max is the fastest thing on two feet. |
78 | You’ve the memory of a wild elephant. |
79 | I felt as abandoned as a used Kleenex. |
80 | I haven’t seen him in a million years. |
81 | This is the easiest exam in the world. |
82 | I’m so hungry that I could eat a horse. |
83 | I’ve walked thousand miles to meet you. |
84 | Quick! I’ve million other things to do. |
85 | I have a million things to do this week. |
86 | My Mom made enough food to feed an army. |
87 | That is the worst thing I’ve ever heard. |
88 | This is the worst (best) day of my life. |
89 | He feels buried under a mountain of work. |
90 | I can’t go out; I have a ton of homework. |
91 | I waited in line at the pharmacy forever. |
92 | John always knows the right thing to say. |
93 | Their new house cost a gazillion dollars. |
94 | This is the best restaurant in the world. |
95 | This race is going to be the death of me. |
96 | Nothing could ever go wrong with his plan. |
97 | She was so mad that she was spitting fire. |
98 | The chocolate cake was the best cake ever. |
99 | You dance worse than popcorn in a machine. |
100 | Your dad is the smartest guy in the world. |
101 | Go to the park? That’s the best idea ever. |
102 | I have told you a million times not to lie! |
103 | I’m so tired that I could sleep for a week. |
104 | I’ve seen this movie at least 80,000 times. |
105 | She thought she would die of embarrassment. |
106 | That was the easiest question in the world. |
107 | Your oversized skirt can be used as a tent. |
108 | The car went faster than the speed of light. |
109 | There can’t be anything cuter than this cat. |
110 | You’ve made me the happiest man alive, Rita. |
111 | His joke was as gross as a cockroach in soup. |
112 | His new car was as fast as greased lightning. |
113 | His voice was so melodious that we dozed off. |
114 | I’ve been buried under a mountain of editing. |
115 | Jack was thirsty enough to drink a river dry. |
116 | My geography teacher is older than the hills. |
117 | She was buried under a mountain of paperwork. |
118 | The new rules are taking forever to complete. |
119 | The rocket was faster than the speed of light |
120 | Your necklace sparkles brighter than the sun. |
121 | I could listen to that song on repeat forever. |
122 | It’s so hot here. I feel as if I’m in an oven. |
123 | She is more beautiful than the moon and stars. |
124 | Vanessa never has anything interesting to say. |
125 | You could have knocked me over with a feather. |
126 | He hit the ball so hard that it landed on moon. |
127 | That song is the worst thing I have ever heard. |
128 | This assignment is going to be the death of me. |
129 | We should be partners for the next seven lives. |
130 | I searched every corner of the city to find you. |
131 | Pam was skinny enough to jump through a keyhole. |
132 | Patty drank from a bottomless glass of Kool-Aid. |
133 | That purse looks like it cost a million dollars. |
134 | Your mouth smells like the mouth of a carnivore. |
135 | Allie has a million pairs of shoes in her closet. |
136 | He never stopped complaining about his workplace. |
137 | I could smell freshly-baked apple pie from miles. |
138 | I’ve told you to clean your room a million times! |
139 | If I can’t buy that perfect prom dress, I’ll die! |
140 | My phone rang with what seemed like police siren. |
141 | The mole on your forearm is bigger than a saucer. |
142 | You speak so loudly. You can be heard from miles. |
143 | The commander’s shout to his unit shook the earth. |
144 | This room is so cold that I’m getting hypothermia. |
145 | My school band was as famous as the Beatles in 60s. |
146 | It was so cold that even polar bears were shivering. |
147 | On hearing the result, I was motionless as a corpse. |
148 | I’m so broke, I don’t have two cents to rub together. |
149 | Novak Djokovic was invincible in Grand Slams in 2021. |
150 | The fun & frolic was as boisterous as the stormy sea. |
151 | The leaping catch by the fielder took my breath away. |
152 | The meeting went on for what seemed like an eternity. |
153 | You’re as ageless as the redwood trees in California. |
154 | I went home and made the biggest sandwich of all time. |
155 | We’re so poor we don’t have two cents to rub together. |
156 | Basketball is the only thing that ever mattered to him. |
157 | Surprise quiz in this course is as inevitable as death. |
158 | The food was so delicious that I almost ate my fingers. |
159 | You sneezed so loudly that the vase on the table shook. |
160 | You’ve got a smile that could light up this whole town. |
161 | Your gaming laptop seems to be worth its weight in gold. |
162 | Once I get you in my arms, I’m never going to let you go. |
163 | The spot on your collar is as big as an island on Amazon. |
164 | The only thing that he ever wants to do is play that game. |
165 | I know every line of the novel; I’ve read it hundred times. |
166 | It was so cold; I saw polar bears wearing hats and jackets. |
167 | Old Mr. Johnson has been teaching here since the Stone Age. |
168 | I’d rather French kiss a rattlesnake than miss a gym period. |
169 | Now there is no star that is not perfumed with my fragrance. |
170 | This smoothie is used oil compared to the smoothie you make. |
171 | She is so slim that she can pass through the eye of a needle. |
172 | There are thousand reasons why our trains are rarely on time. |
173 | He has ice in his veins. [Coolness has been stretched to ice.] |
174 | She’s so dumb; she thinks Taco Bell is a Mexican phone company |
175 | I’ve so much to study for the exam. It’ll take years to finish. |
176 | During probation period, I felt like a bug under the microscope. |
177 | In these clothes, you’re looking like a monkey in dinner jacket. |
178 | I tried golf thousand times, but in the end, I couldn’t learn it. |
179 | It’s so cold, you’ll get hypothermia the second you step outside. |
180 | You drive more recklessly than a man drunk on a bottle of whiskey. |
181 | He is like a grenade with the pin pulled, ready to go off any time. |
182 | He is always on his mobile. [Comment: One can’t be always on phone.] |
183 | The car has gotten so hot that I can make an omelette on the bonnet. |
184 | The sight of them kissing is so gross that it makes me want to puke. |
185 | Goodness is the only investment that never fails. Henry David Thoreau |
186 | To be in time for the show, he drove faster than a Formula-1 race car. |
187 | That joke is so old; the last time I heard it, I was riding a dinosaur. |
188 | When I was young, I had to walk 15 miles to school uphill, in the snow. |
189 | You and Scully seem to have no meeting point, much like parallel lines. |
190 | Your expressions during the play were as animated as a suit on a hanger. |
191 | Your handwriting seems to be the walk of an ant with its legs dipped in ink. |
192 | Come on, get up! Even a 5-year-old would. You aren’t hurt as bad as you think. |
193 | The journalists fired rapid-fire questions at the Governor like a machine gun. |
194 | The two hours I spent watching that movie were the worst two hours of my life. |
195 | You did it! Congratulations! World’s best cup of coffee. Great job, everybody. |
196 | Chris won’t drive her home because she lives on the other side of the universe. |
197 | When we were younger, we were so poor we didn’t have two cents to rub together. |
198 | The size of serving in your restaurant is like serving a mouse to a hungry lion. |
199 | You can beat a photocopier at copying assignments in both speed and resemblance. |
200 | Forget knocking it out of the park, Frank can knock a baseball off the continent. |
201 | I couldn’t eat the meal because it was as cold as an iron rod in freezing winter. |
202 | It’s difficult to get rid of cockroaches. They’re as many as stars in the galaxy. |
203 | Charlie gazed hopelessly at the endless pile of bills stretching across the counter. |
204 | The child cried a river and drowned the place. [Tears have been stretched to a river.] |
205 | Monkeys, which seem to be as abundant as salt in the sea, have been a menace in this town. |
206 | I called you thousand times yesterday, but because you didn’t pick up, I cancelled my plan. |
207 | My new shoes, little bit tight, are killing me. [Discomfort has been stretched to killing.] |
208 | She is as lean as a toothpick. [This too has been overused, and hence it’s not a good one.] |
209 | Little Truman had a voice so high it could only be detected by a bat. Tennessee Williams on Truman Capote |
210 | This is the funniest joke I’ve ever heard. [In rare case, it could be, but mostly it’ll be an exaggeration.] |
211 | Your decrepit furniture seems to be from Jurassic era. [A decade or two has been stretched to millions of years.] |
212 | There are more reasons to get vaccinated against Covid virus than the number of people who died because of the virus. |
213 | At one point, the longest ever tennis match, played between John Isner and Nicolas Mahut, seemed that it would never end. |
214 | I had to finally switch off the fan as it threatened to blow me away. [Blowing papers has been stretched to blowing a person.] |
215 | I felt as lonely in the new city as Lystrosaurus felt more than 250 million years ago when almost everything died on the planet. |
216 | Your smile is more infectious than Covid virus. [Infectiousness of Covid virus is strikingly different from infectiousness of smile.] |
217 | His song was so jarring that it shattered windowpanes. [A less striking hyperbole would be: His song was so jarring that everyone left the room.] |
218 | I would prefer Titanic to this helicopter. [This one is a paraphrase from the movie Mysterious Island. The helicopter looked well past its utility.] |
219 | He ran faster than cheetah to fetch wine from the nearby grocery store. [This isn’t a particularly good hyperbole because comparing a human runner wit |
220 | Kids are so overloaded these days. Just look at their bags; they weigh a ton. [Regular bags weigh in kilograms, but here the weight has been stretched |
221 | She can pull off complex multiplications in a blink. [Anyone would normally take at least few minutes to pull off complex multiplications, but here th |
222 | The manager then exploded like dozen hand grenades, giving piece of his mind to those present. [You could’ve also stretched the manager’s explosive ou |
223 | While making the omelette, I puffed it so much that it hit the ceiling. [Ordinarily, the omelette would’ve puffed few centimeters. You stretch this at |
224 | You leave a mile-wide trail of personal data on the internet for advertisers to exploit. [An intermediate-level version of this hyperbole would be: Yo |
225 | You’re such a chatterbox that even walls get tired listening to you. [A beginner-level version of this hyperbole would be: You’re such a chatterbox th |
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