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Eunuch: One who is cut off from temptation.

Body Definitions

Out of the mouths of babes comes cereal.

Children Family Wordplay

No man is truly married until he understands every word his wife is NOT saying.

Communication Marriage Speech Wives

The niblick, with its heavy head of iron, is a capital club for knocking down solicitors.

Golf Sports

She has really plummeted to the top of the charts.

Malaprops

Alas: Early Victorian for, “Oh, Hell.”

Communication Definitions Language

“My bicycle wheel is damaged,” said Tom outspokenly.

Tom Swifties

My idea of housework is to sweep the room with a glance.

Housework Work

I wished the buck stopped here, as I could use a few.

Communication Language Money

Counsel: Advice with a price tag.

Definitions

Dorito Syndrome: Feelings of emptiness and dissatisfaction triggered by addictive substances that lack nutritional content.

Definitions Food/Drink

Punctuality: Waiting around for other people.

Definitions

Make no delusions about the past!

Malaprops

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

Definitions People

Profanity: The father tongue.

Communication Definitions Language Speech

Post Operative: Letter carrier

Definitions

If you know you don't know much, you are smarter than most people.

Intelligence

Mixed Company: What you are in when you think of a story you can’t tell there.

Definitions People

They burnt the midnight candle to resolve the issues.

Mixed metaphors

handle him with kids’ gloves

Malaprops

Education: One of the few things a person is willing to pay for and not get.

Definitions Education