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Ability is what will get you to the top if the boss has no daughter.

Success Work

Infant Prodigies: Young people with highly imaginative parents.

Children Definitions Family

Apologize: To lay the foundation for a future offense.

Definitions

I dozed in and off.

Mixed metaphors

“Aha! Here’s someone who can’t speak!” exclaimed Tom dumbfoundedly.

Tom Swifties

Derange: Where de buffalo roam.

Definitions

What a dirty trap!

Mixed metaphors

You have the right to remain silent; anything you say will be misquoted then used against you.

Communication Law Speech

I'm a nervous basket.

Mixed metaphors

He’s so crooked that when he dies, they’re going to have to screw him into the ground.

Characteristics Expressions Honesty

Necking: A passion fancy.

Definitions

Bull Market: A random market movement causing an investor to mistake himself for a financial genius.

Definitions

Zebra: A horse behind bars.

Animals Definitions

“Damn it, look at the camera!” Tom snapped.

Tom Swifties

Vacation: A period during which people find out where to stay away from next year.

Definitions

Delegate-At-Large: A man at a convention whose wife didn’t accompany him.

Definitions

“England is okay, except there seems to be at least one blood-sucking insect in every outhouse”, said Tom aloofly.

Tom Swifties

Righteous Indignation: Your own wrath, as opposed to the shocking bad temper of others.

Anger Definitions Emotions

Woman: A creature whom God made beautiful that man might love her, and unreasonable that she might love man.

Definitions People

Interpreter: One who enables two persons of different languages to understand each other by repeating to each what it would have been to the interpreter’s advantage for the other to have said.

Communication Definitions Language

It will be music to your wallet.

Mixed metaphors