Greek Word, Texas Truth

From the Word of the Day feed in the right-hand column:

hyperbole \hy-PUHR-buh-lee\, noun:
Extravagant exaggeration.

Those were the days when I still liked hyperbole, before an excess of real drama killed my taste for the manufactured kind.
-- Katherine Russell Rich, The Red Devil

Hyperbole comes from Greek hyperbole, "excess," from hyperballein, "to exceed," from hyper, "beyond" + ballein, "to throw."

Yup, here in Texas we sure like to throw "it" around to excess.