***Word Play Pages***

Catachresis and Malapropisms
(from the Dawn of Time through Lovey Howell, to Eternity . . .)

A watched pot doth not boil, neither doth it spin!
Mrs. Howellism

Lightning strikes only skin deep!
Mrs. Howellism

You can lead a whore to culture, but you can't make her think!
Dorothy Parker, opening remarks to Ladies Horticulturist meeting in Oklahoma
(nice lady poet from New York?)

Franklin discovered electricity by rubbing two cats backward
and declared, "a horse divided against itself can not stand."

Don't judge a book before it's hatched

Don't cry over more than you can chew

Color outside the box, every day of the year

Too many cooks, not enough indians.

It's not over till the fat lady puts her nose to the grindstone!

If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck and quacks like a duck

We'll burn that bridge when we get to it!

It was a match made in hog heaven!

Always remember you are unique (just like everyone else)

If at first you don't succeed, fry, fry a hen!

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