Deliberate exaggeration, which no one takes literally, used to emphasize a feeling or situation.
In The Master and Margarita
A child, an anonymous letter, a pamphlet, a time bomb, and heaven knows what else, but no one would get rid of four hundred dollars
The list climbs from a child to a time bomb to say that anything at all may be left in someone else's house, except "four hundred dollars." The exaggeration, which no one takes literally, serves to refute Nikanor's claim that the dollars in his bathroom were planted.
Part One, Chapter 15: Nikanor Ivanovich's dream, The host of Nikanor Ivanovich's dream
Who told you that there is no true, faithful, eternal love in the world? Then cut out the tongue of that infamous liar!
Part Two, Chapter 19: Margarita, The narrator
he is wearing a lilac dress suit, he is bloated from so much salmon, but he has foreign money, and ours, what about ours?!
Part Two, Chapter 28: The last adventures of Korovyov and Behemoth, Korovyov
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