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>How could it possibly be meant literally? Do you consider it possible for a rocket to be caught by a literal person with literal wooden sticks?

in ordinary English there are many degrees of "literally".

[TiredOfLife]

In ordinary English literally is a synonym of figuratively since 2013

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