Sorry, no online dictionaries contain the exact phrase not meant to be taken literally.

Reverse dictionary results:
1. metaphorical
2. figurative
3. symbolic
4. non-literal
5. allegorical
6. allegorism
7. apophthegm
8. narratively
9. apopemptic
10. bathos
11. epigrammatism
12. euphuism
13. evocatory
14. merism
15. paratextuality
16. pianistically
17. stylistically
18. verbal
19. verbalistic
20. annomination
21. aphorism
22. aphoristically
23. apothegm
24. apothegmatic
25. classically
26. commentarial
27. diplomatically
28. ekphrastic
29. epigrammatic
30. figurally
31. gestalt
32. gnomic
33. iconicity
34. imagery
35. literately
36. locution
37. logodaedaly
38. metaphorically

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