Quote Originally Posted by georgie_leech View Post
Non-metaphorically, perhaps?
Also, physical and real might work, and even literal - you just have to avoid the adverb, but the adjective is not as widely used as a synonym of metaphorical(ly), wso you can turn the sentence around and it might be clearer:

Belkar kicked the literal crap out of that guy.

But yeah, ultimately, you may just have to clarify. It's not just the auto-antonym nature of literally; culturally, we are so used to hyperbole when tale-telling that when something out of the ordinary is described, the neutral assumption is usually that the storyteller is embellishing for effect.

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