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Thrift: Common sense applied to spending.

Definitions Money

Boomerang: A working model of poetic justice.

Things

Work: An unpopular way to earn money.

Definitions Work

He’s crooked as a barrel full of fish hooks.

Characteristics Expressions Honesty Insults

Rattlesnake: Tattle tail.

Animals Definitions Wordplay

Right there on the tip of my brain

Mixed metaphors

Justice: A decision in your favor.

Definitions

I dozed in and off.

Mixed metaphors

“Those cobs are amazing!” said Tom cornily.

Tom Swifties

Get the kinks rolling

Mixed metaphors

People have the persona that all Texans wear cowboy hats.

Beliefs Malaprops Opinion

The light at the end of the tunnel is only muzzle flash.

Mixed metaphors

Rugby: A game played by gentlemen with odd-shaped balls.

Definitions Sports

Revolutionary: An oppressed person waiting for the opportunity to become an oppressor.

Definitions

Alliance: In international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each other’s pockets that hey cannot separately plunder a third.

Definitions Politics

Garage: An attic on a lower level.

Definitions

He's a wolf in cheap clothing.

Malaprops

Nothing is foolproof to a sufficiently talented fool.

Fools Intelligence

Middle age: When a woman’s hair starts turning from gray to black.

Age Appearance Definitions Hair

Heredity: What a man believes in until his son begins to behave like a delinquent.

Definitions Family

When I'm sick, I take Casper Oil.

Malaprops