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Winter: The time of year when it gets later earlier.

Definitions Science/Weather

He’s like a duck out of water.

Mixed metaphors

Harder’n baptizing a cat.

Expressions

Char: Common method of cooking over a campfire.

Cooking Definitions

It is so hot… chickens are laying hard-boiled eggs.

Exaggerations Heat Science/Weather

Death: To stop sinning suddenly.

Death Definitions

Belly: The veranda over the toy shop.

Appearance Body Definitions

"Let's gather up the rope," said Tom coyly.

Tom Swifties

Amnesty: The state’s magnanimity to those offenders whom it would be too expensive to punish.

Definitions

Love is blind… but marriage is the real eye-opener.

Emotions Love Marriage

You can’t change the spots on an old dog.

Mixed metaphors

What a terrible cat's after me!

Malaprops

“It’s the quotient of two integers,” said Tom rationally.

Tom Swifties

“I will file a counter suit against you,” Tom retorted.

Tom Swifties

Life’s all about ass – covering it, kicking it, kissing it or trying to get it.

Life

What are you incinerating?

Malaprops

Science: An orderly arrangement of what, at the moment, seems to be the facts.

Beliefs Definitions Facts Science/Weather

“There’s room for one more,” Tom admitted.

Tom Swifties

“The executioner has received the tool he needs”, said Tom with a heavy accent.

Tom Swifties

Toupée: Top secret.

Appearance Definitions Hair

Admiral: A general at sea.

Definitions Military