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“I love hot dogs,” said Tom with relish.

Tom Swifties

Smile: To expose a portion of one’s skeleton as a gesture of goodwill toward a fellow human.

Definitions

“Are you homosexual?” Tom queried gaily.

Tom Swifties

Don’t eat with your mouth full!

Mixed metaphors

Agreeable Person: One who agrees with me.

Definitions

“I haven’t had my photographs developed yet,” said Tom negatively.

Tom Swifties

He was grinning like a butchers dog.

Emotions Expressions Happiness

They live so deep in the woods they kept possums as yard dogs.

Animals Expressions Places Situations

Shyster: The other fellow’s lawyer.

Definitions Lawyers

I look like I was sent for and couldn’t go.

Appearance

Beyond the question of a doubt

Mixed metaphors

My mother never saw the irony in calling me a son-of-a-bitch.

Communication Family Language Mothers

Not to put her up on a limestone, but my sister is really terrific.

Misspokements

Skeptic: One who won’t take know for an answer.

Definitions People

“But a totalitarian government could remove all trace of my ever having existed!” said Tom unpersonably.

Tom Swifties

Sabbatical: A Latin word meaning, “I quit, but you won’t know it for certain for a year.”

Definitions

“I caught two hares”, said Tom abrasively.

Tom Swifties

Canada is like your attic, you forget that it's up there, but when you go, it's like "Oh man, look at all this great stuff!"

Canada Places

I know who turned off the lights,” Tom hinted darkly.

Tom Swifties

Armor: The kind of clothing worn by a man whose tailor is a blacksmith.

Clothing Definitions

War without France would be like… World War II.

Conflict Places War