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Usher: One who takes a leading part in a theatre.

Wordplay

Pocket Watch: A watch for people who don’t like having time on their hands.

Definitions Time

The first known case of a rat joining a sinking ship.

Insults

Better to understand a little than to misunderstand a lot.

Beliefs Intelligence Proverbs Understanding

Reoriented: Sent back to China.

Definitions Wordplay

A loose tongue spoils the broth.

Mixed metaphors

Seeing a buzzard catch a rare phalarope is in bird-watching terms, like killing two birds with one stone.

Mixed metaphors

He was grinnin like a possum eatin a sweet tater.

Expressions

Been reading up on the thesaurus lately because a mind is a terrible thing to garbage.

Books Communication

Science: An orderly arrangement of what, at the moment, seems to be the facts.

Beliefs Definitions Facts Science/Weather

Cookie: A standard method for converting sugar, floor, and butter into body fat.

Definitions Food/Drink

Time rolled up like a scroll, while the plague nibbled at the edges of their years.

Mixed metaphors

Lawyer: Men whom we hire to protect us from lawyers.

Definitions Lawyers

Marriage: The mourning after the knot before.

Definitions Marriage

Know-it-all: One who pretends to know something about everything but really knows nothing about anything.

Definitions

Academy Awards: A place where everyone lets off esteem.

Definitions

We can still hang our heads high.

Mixed metaphors

Archaeologist: A person whose career lies in ruins.

Definitions Occupations Wordplay

Fad: Something that goes in one era and out the other.

Definitions

Sidesaddle: How men, rather than women, would ride in a truly logical world.

Definitions Men Women

“I didn’t look at all!” Tom peeped.

Tom Swifties