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To avoid misunderstanding, I’ll stop speaking formal English and just use the binocular.

Communication Language Malaprops

It’s better to have half a cake and eat it and enjoy it, than not to have any cake at all.

Mixed metaphors

Let’s split the baby with the bathwater.

Mixed metaphors

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

We were like two ships sinking in the night.

Malaprops

Harp: A piano in the nude.

Definitions Entertainment Music Things

When a man opens a car door for his wife, it's either a new car or a new wife.

Autos Husbands Marriage Wives

Dentist: A person who runs a filling station.

Definitions Occupations

What a dirty trap!

Mixed metaphors

Wink: A whether signal.

Definitions

When all is said and done, more is said than done.

Communication Speech

No Exit: A sign indicating the most convenient way out of a building.

Definitions

A veritable land mine of valuable information.

Malaprops

We will burn that horse when we get there.

Mixed metaphors

“I’m wearing a ribbon round my arm,” said Tom with abandon.

Tom Swifties

Eunuch: One who is cut off from temptation.

Body Definitions

improvise

Tom Swifties

Biting the hand that rocks the cradle

Mixed metaphors

Hangover: The moaning after the night before.

Alcohol Definitions Food/Drink Health

Alone… in bad company

Insults

Suntan: A pigment of your imagination.

Definitions