larger-than-life

larger-than-life
a) Of greater size or magnitude than is naturally or normally the case.

Miss Snevelliccis papa looked very big indeed—several sizes larger than life.

At uniform intervals round the base of the pedestal, four naked figures in chains, somewhat larger than life, are seated in various attitudes of humiliation and despair.

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