FOR LEXOPHILES (LOVERS OF WORDS):

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FOR LEXOPHILES (LOVERS OF WORDS):

 

  1. A bicycle can’t stand alone; it is two tired.

 

  1. A will is a dead giveaway.

 

  1. Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana.

 

  1. A backward poet writes inverse.

 

  1. In a democracy it’s your vote that counts; in feudalism, it’s your Count that votes.

 

  1. A chicken crossing the road: poultry in motion.

 

  1. If you don’t pay your exorcist you can get repossessed.

 

  1. With her marriage she got a new name and a dress.

 

  1. Show me a piano falling down a mine shaft and I’ll show you A-flat miner.

 

  1. When a clock is hungry it goes back four seconds.

 

  1. The guy who fell onto an upholstery machine was fully recovered.

 

  1. A grenade fell onto a kitchen floor in France resulted in Linoleum Blownapart.

 

  1. You are stuck with your debt if you can’t budge it.

 

  1. Local Area Network in Australia: The LAN down under.

 

  1. He broke into song because he couldn’t find the key.

 

  1. A calendar’s days are numbered.

 

  1. A lot of money is tainted: ‘Taint yours, and ‘taint mine.

 

  1. A boiled egg is hard to beat.

 

  1. He had a photographic memory which was never developed.

 

  1. A plateau is a high form of flattery.

 

  1. The short fortuneteller who escaped from prison: a small medium at large.

 

  1. Those who get too big for their britches will be exposed in the end.

 

  1. When you’ve seen one shopping center you’ve seen a mall.

 

  1. If you jump off a Paris bridge, you are in Seine.

 

  1. When she saw her first strands of gray hair, she thought she’d dye.

 

  1. Bakers trade bread recipes on a knead to know basis.

 

  1. Santa’s helpers are subordinate clauses.

 

  1. Acupuncture: a jab well done.

 

  1. Marathon runners with bad shoes suffer the agony of de feet.

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