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Exaggeration is a billion times worse than understatement.

Beliefs Communication

Tougher than a boiled owl.

Expressions

One brain washes the other.

Malaprops

A New Year's resolution is something that goes in one Year and out the other.

Beliefs Communication Language

We don't need to skirt around the bush.

Mixed metaphors

Executive Ability: The art of getting the credit for all the hard work that somebody else does.

Definitions Work

“It’s freezing,” Tom muttered icily.

Tom Swifties

Business Lunch: Lunch.

Definitions Food/Drink

Oratory: The art of making deep noises from the chest sound like important messages from the brain.

Communication Definitions Speech

Groom: Least important member of wedding party, whose only duties are to show up on time, remember the ring, and try not to be drunk.

Definitions Husbands Marriage

Ain’t nobody out at that time a night but burglars and bad women.

Expressions Time

Business: Something which, if you don’t have any, you go out of.

Definitions

She plummeted the deaths of inequity.

Malaprops

Those who live by the sword get shot by those who don't.

Arms Situations Things

“Give me some Chinese food”, said Tom wantonly.

Tom Swifties

If you are riding a high horse, there ain’t no way to get down off it gracefully.

Characteristics

Euphemisms: Unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne.

Definitions

Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.

Definitions Science/Weather Taxes

I don't want to hold an open manhole over your head.

Mixed metaphors

Chicken guarding the hen house

Mixed metaphors

Nothing makes a fish bigger than almost being caught.

Activities Honesty Lies