Here's the smell of blood still all the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten these little hands.…
Lady Macbeth's cry in the sleepwalking scene (Act V, Scene 1)—'All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand'—is a famous example of Hyperbole (extravagant…
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Lady Macbeth's cry in the sleepwalking scene (Act V, Scene 1)—'All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand'—is a famous example of Hyperbole (extravagant exaggeration to convey overwhelming guilt).
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