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An allowance is what you pay your children to live with you.

Children Definitions Family

Expert: A man from another city, and the farther away that city is, the greater the expert.

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Love: The triumph of imagination over intelligence.

Definitions Emotions Love

Multitasking: Messing up several chores at the same time.

Activities Definitions

Rattlesnake: Tattle tail.

Animals Definitions Wordplay

In Mexico, we have a word for sushi… bait.

(1945 – 2008) American comedian & musician
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Friends: There are two kinds of friends – those who are around when you need them, and those who are around when they need you.

Definitions Friends People

Coward: One who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.

(1842 – 1914) author & satirist
Communication Definitions Language

Hula Dancer: A shake in the grass.

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Delayed Payment: A tourniquet applied at the pockets.

Definitions Money

Etiquette: Learning to yawn with your mouth closed.

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Bisexual: A person who pays for sex.

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Plagiarize: To take the thought or style of another writer whom one has never, never read.

(1842 – 1914) author & satirist
Communication Definitions Language Reading/Writing

Selfish: Devoid of consideration for the selfishness of others.

(1842 – 1914) author & satirist
Characteristics Definitions

Philosophy: Common sense in a dress suit.

Definitions Intelligence Wisdom

Lisp: To Call a spade a thpade.

(1863 – 1935) British-born American writer, artist & illustrator
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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

Yodeling: Slope opera.

Definitions Wordplay

Falsies: Making mountains out of molehills.

Appearance Clothing Definitions

Silence: Having nothing to say and saying it.

Communication Definitions Situations Speech

Intuition: The strange instinct that tells a woman she is right whether she is or not.

Definitions Women