Subject: Exaggerations

Exaggerations:

Humorous overstated descriptions of things or conditions taken to ridiculous extremes.

It is so hot… I saw a dog chasing a cat and they were both walking.

Exaggerations Heat Science/Weather

It is so hot… the cows arre giving evaporated milk.

Exaggerations Heat Science/Weather

He is so poor… he can’t even pay attention.

Exaggerations Money Poverty

She is so fat… when she was a kid she could only play seek.

Appearance Body Exaggerations Fat

She’s so stupid… if you give her a penny for her thoughts, you’ll get change back.

Exaggerations Intelligence Stupidity

His nose is so big… he could smoke a cigar in the shower.

Appearance Body Exaggerations

She is so old… she used to baby-sit Jesus.

Age Exaggerations Old

It was so cold… polar bears were buying fur coats.

Cold Exaggerations Science/Weather

She is so thin… she doesn’t cast a shadow.

Appearance Body Exaggerations

She is so short… you can see her feet on her driver’s license picture.

Appearance Body Exaggerations

He is so fat… he’s on both sides of the family.

Appearance Body Exaggerations Fat

The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Samuel Clemens (1835 – 1910) author & humorist
Communication Death Exaggerations

His car is so expensive the radiator requires Perrier.

Autos Exaggerations Things

It is so hot… the trees are whistling for the dogs.

Exaggerations Heat Science/Weather

She is so fat… when she sits around the house, she sits around the house.

Appearance Body Exaggerations Fat

I was so poor, I couldn’t even pay attention.

Exaggerations Money Poverty

He is so ugly… when he throws a boomerang it won’t come back.

Appearance Exaggerations Ugly

He is so ugly… when he walks into the bank they turn off the cameras.

Appearance Exaggerations Ugly

It is so hot… I saw two trees fighting over a dog.

Exaggerations Heat Science/Weather

She is so fat… she laid on the beach and people tried to push her back into the ocean.

Appearance Body Exaggerations Fat

It was so cold… pickpockets were sticking their hands in strangers’ pockets to keep warm.

Cold Exaggerations Science/Weather