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Smile: To expose a portion of one’s skeleton as a gesture of goodwill toward a fellow human.

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Diaper: A bum wrap.

Definitions

Does a fat boy like cake.

Appearance Body Expressions Fat

We're going to get locked into a corner.

Mixed metaphors

I think the big guns will come to the boil.

Mixed metaphors

Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her.

Definitions Marriage Wives

When you are in it up to your ears, keep your mouth shut.

Problems Situations

Right between the nose

Mixed metaphors

A falling nozzle will turn toward you and land on its trigger.

Problems Things

Apartment: A place where the landlord and the tenant are both trying to raise the rent.

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Amen: The only part of a prayer that everyone knows.

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Automatic: If something is automatic, that simple means that you can’t repair it yourself.

Definitions Murphy’s Laws Problems

Banker: A pawn broker with a manicure.

Definitions Occupations Work

Chiropractor: A doctor who works his fingers to the bone… yours.

Definitions Doctors

The lining's always more silver on the other side of the cloud.

Mixed metaphors

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

Definitions People

Small Town: Where everybody knows what everybody else is doing, and all buy the weekly newspaper to see how much the editor dares to print.

Definitions Places

The early bird gathers no moss.

Mixed metaphors

My uncle died of Lou Sterrett's disease.

Health Malaprops

Definition: A statement intended to put a word in its place.

Communication Definitions Language

I want to be sure we don't build ourselves a bag of worms.

Mixed metaphors