Subject: Definitions (Page 44)

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Automatic: If something is automatic, that simple means that you can’t repair it yourself.

Definitions Murphy’s Laws Problems

Destiny: A tyrant’s authority for crime and a fool’s excuse for failure.

Definitions Future Time

Short Vacation: Half a loaf.

Activities Definitions

Business Lunch: Lunch.

Definitions Food/Drink

Stroke: Any forward movement of the golf club that is made with the intention of hitting and moving the ball and is observed by another golfer.

Definitions Golf Sports

Senility: A cleansing of the mental blackboard shortly before class is dismissed.

Age Definitions Old

Spanking: Stern punishment.

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Babysitter: A teenager you hire to watch your TV.

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Theatre director: a person engaged by the management to conceal the fact that the players cannot act.

(1877 – 1947) British diarist & critic
Acting Definitions Entertainment Occupations

Antique: An item your grandparents bought, your parents got rid of,  and you're buying again.

Definitions Things

Tricycle: A tot rod.

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Ambidextrous: Able to pick with equal skill a right-hand pocket or a left.

(1842 – 1914) author & satirist
Communication Definitions Language

Sympathy: What one usually gives to a friend or relative when he doesn’t want to lend him money.

Definitions Emotions

Desire: The thing that is so often nipped in the budget.

Definitions Emotions

Black Eye: A stamp of disapproval.

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Clever Woman: One who knows how to give a man her own way.

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Capitol: The seat of misgovernment.

(1842 – 1914) author & satirist
Definitions Government

Dictatorship: A system of government where everything that isn’t forbidden is obligatory.

Definitions Government

Dentist: man who lives from hand to mouth.

Definitions Occupations

Poise: The act of raising the eyebrows instead of the roof.

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Resolute: Obstinate in a course that we approve.

(1842 – 1914) author & satirist
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