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catachresis

n.
1.strained or paradoxical use of words either in error (as `blatant' to mean `flagrant') or deliberately (as in a mixed metaphor: `blind mouths')

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    put down (someone) or put (someone) down
    to criticize someone, to make someone feel bad
    The boy is always putting down his girlfriend in front of his friends.



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