Question

which figure of speech is used in this text? in may 2014, when wildfires threatened parts of san diego county in california, firefighters worked around the clock in an effort to control the blaze. idiom verbal irony

Explanation:

An idiom is a phrase with a non - literal meaning. "Worked around the clock" means working continuously without stopping, not in the literal sense of working around a clock. Verbal irony involves saying the opposite of what is meant, which is not the case here. So the figure of speech is an idiom.

Answer:

Idiom