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Stomach: The home of the swallow.

Definitions

An original idea can never emerge from committee in the original.

Ideas Intelligence Murphy’s Laws

… has eaten into the grocery chain’s luxury food side.

Mixed metaphors

Sprouts: Innocent green plants snatched in their infancy and devoured alive by ravenous vegetarians.

Definitions Food/Drink

Bum: A man-about-town.

Definitions

Conscience gets a lot of credit that belongs to cold feet.

Characteristics

Impossible: What nobody can do until somebody does it.

Definitions

Brute Force: When your brain doesn’t work, just keep beating on the problem until one of you dies.

Definitions

Not enough to say grace over.

Expressions Food/Drink

“Here’s your allowance for the next two weeks,” Tom advanced.

Tom Swifties

Isn’t it strange that the same people who laugh at gypsy fortune-tellers take economists seriously.

Beliefs

Dark Ages: Knight time.

Definitions

Sex Education: Sermon on the mount.

Definitions Sex Wordplay

It was deader than a hangnail.

Malaprops

“I’m mentioned in this book,” said Tom contentedly.

Tom Swifties

Abscond: To move in a mysterious way, commonly with the property of another.

Crime Definitions

He is so old… his social security number is 6.

Age Exaggerations Old

Upper Crust: People stuck together by their dough.

Definitions Money People

That man is a real charmer, a regular Don Coyote.

Malaprops People

He's the meanest man on the face of the universe.

Mixed metaphors

The rain is coming down like gangbusters!

Mixed metaphors Science/Weather