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Money isn’t everything: usually it isn’t enough.

Money

Hamper: A wicker container with a lid, usually surrounded by, but not containing, dirty clothing.

Clothing Definitions

Neurotic: Someone who worries about things that didn’t happen in the past instead of worrying about things that won’t happen in the future.

Definitions People

Free Verse: Verse written without rhyme or reason.

Definitions Reading/Writing

A rolling stone kills no birds.

Mixed metaphors

Never enter a battle of wits unarmed.

Insults Intelligence

Reformer: One who wants his conscience to be your guide.

Definitions

We'll be there until the fat lady freezes over.

Mixed metaphors

What in the Sam Hill are you doing?

Miscellaneous

It will be music to your wallet.

Mixed metaphors

Growing up the trellis were pink and yellow concubines.

Malaprops

“I don’t have a boyfriend,” said Mary guilelessly.

Tom Swifties

“Here’s another baseball glove”, Tom admitted.

Tom Swifties

“That’s already been taken care of,” Tom pretended.

Tom Swifties

Doughnut: Holey food.

Definitions Food/Drink

Wrinkles: Something other people have… you have character lines.

Appearance Body Definitions

I thought it might be a good idea for you to check base with him.

Mixed metaphors

You could start an argument in an empty house.

Characteristics Expressions

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

Cold Exaggerations Science/Weather

Don't corner something that is meaner than you.

Expressions Situations

Acrobat: The person who turns a flop into a success.

Definitions