"larger than life" meaning in Anglais

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  "etymology_texts": [
    "→ voir larger, then et life ; litt. « plus grand que la vie »."
  ],
  "lang": "Anglais",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "pos_title": "Locution adjectivale",
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          "name": "Exemples en anglais",
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        {
          "ref": "Illustrated Guide to the South Indian Railway (Incorporated in England),chapitre « Villupuram-Pondicherry Branch Line », page 140. Hoe and Co. 1926 (fac-similé : Asian Educational Services, 2004).",
          "text": "On the west side of the fort stand three stone figures well sculptured and larger than life, which are supposed to represent Rama, Lakshmana and Sita."
        },
        {
          "ref": "Isidore Silver, article« All in the Mafia Family: The Godfather », page 51, dans Film in Society (dirigé par Arthur Asa Berger). Transaction Books, 1980.",
          "text": "The heroes (and whatever the reservations of Puzo and Coppola, heroes they are) are not merely men who scheme, connive, and double-cross; they are larger than life, their emotions purer and more volatile than those experienced by the rest of us."
        },
        {
          "ref": "Gilles Deleuze (traduction de Hugh Tomlinson et Barbara Habberjam), Cinema 1: The Movement Image, chapitre 11 (« Figures, or the transformation of forms »), sous-chapitre 2 (« The figures of the Large and the Small in Herzog »), page 184. The Athlone Press, collection « Athlone Contemporary European Thinkers Series », 1986.",
          "text": "In one, a man who is larger than life frequents a milieu which is itself larger than life, and dreams up an action as great as the milieu.\n — (Gilles Deleuze, Cinéma 1 : L’image-mouvement, chapitre 11 (« Les figures ou la transformation des formes »), page 307. Les éditions de minuit, collection « Critique », 1983.)",
          "translation": ": Dans l’un, un homme de démesure hante un milieu lui-même démesuré, et conçoit une action aussi grande que le milieu."
        },
        {
          "ref": "Lanre Bakare, [Kiki review – flamboyant and uplifting look at New York's ballroom scene « Kiki review – flamboyant and uplifting look at New York's ballroom scene »]. Theguardian.com, 27 janvier 2016. Note : la citation figure à la fois, en entier, dans le texte de l’article et, tronquée, en légende de l’illustration.",
          "text": "It’s a kaleidoscopic and vivid rendering of a world that is larger than life, flamboyant but ultimately fragile."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Hors du commun, au-dessus du lot, hors norme, démesuré."
      ],
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  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "bigger than life"
    }
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  "word": "larger than life"
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  "etymology_texts": [
    "→ voir larger, then et life ; litt. « plus grand que la vie »."
  ],
  "lang": "Anglais",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "pos_title": "Locution adjectivale",
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        {
          "ref": "Illustrated Guide to the South Indian Railway (Incorporated in England),chapitre « Villupuram-Pondicherry Branch Line », page 140. Hoe and Co. 1926 (fac-similé : Asian Educational Services, 2004).",
          "text": "On the west side of the fort stand three stone figures well sculptured and larger than life, which are supposed to represent Rama, Lakshmana and Sita."
        },
        {
          "ref": "Isidore Silver, article« All in the Mafia Family: The Godfather », page 51, dans Film in Society (dirigé par Arthur Asa Berger). Transaction Books, 1980.",
          "text": "The heroes (and whatever the reservations of Puzo and Coppola, heroes they are) are not merely men who scheme, connive, and double-cross; they are larger than life, their emotions purer and more volatile than those experienced by the rest of us."
        },
        {
          "ref": "Gilles Deleuze (traduction de Hugh Tomlinson et Barbara Habberjam), Cinema 1: The Movement Image, chapitre 11 (« Figures, or the transformation of forms »), sous-chapitre 2 (« The figures of the Large and the Small in Herzog »), page 184. The Athlone Press, collection « Athlone Contemporary European Thinkers Series », 1986.",
          "text": "In one, a man who is larger than life frequents a milieu which is itself larger than life, and dreams up an action as great as the milieu.\n — (Gilles Deleuze, Cinéma 1 : L’image-mouvement, chapitre 11 (« Les figures ou la transformation des formes »), page 307. Les éditions de minuit, collection « Critique », 1983.)",
          "translation": ": Dans l’un, un homme de démesure hante un milieu lui-même démesuré, et conçoit une action aussi grande que le milieu."
        },
        {
          "ref": "Lanre Bakare, [Kiki review – flamboyant and uplifting look at New York's ballroom scene « Kiki review – flamboyant and uplifting look at New York's ballroom scene »]. Theguardian.com, 27 janvier 2016. Note : la citation figure à la fois, en entier, dans le texte de l’article et, tronquée, en légende de l’illustration.",
          "text": "It’s a kaleidoscopic and vivid rendering of a world that is larger than life, flamboyant but ultimately fragile."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Hors du commun, au-dessus du lot, hors norme, démesuré."
      ]
    }
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    {
      "word": "bigger than life"
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  "word": "larger than life"
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