Good Wednesday everyone! It's time for "Wordplay"! I thought that we could have fun today with oxymorons. An oxymoron, according to the American Heritage Dictionary is defined as a rhetorical figure in which incongruous or contradictory terms are combined. I chuckle with oxymorons alot. I think that they can be a matter of opinion as well as colloquial, too. I thought it could be fun to see what kind of a list we could come up with. I am starting off with four that I thought of. Add more in the comments section! If you can think of more later, come back and add them! You can email them to me, too at valphish@aol.com, or even do an entry in your own journal and leave the URL to your entry in my comments section so I can go to your entry and add your oxymorons to our list! Thanks for participating! Let's see how long our list can get!
jumbo shrimp
last chance
working vacation
deafening silence
What can you come up with?
Tomorrow is Sassy Deb's birthday! Drop by and wish her a happy one! Have a good rest of the week everyone! xox
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only one I can think of now is
ReplyDelete"little pregnant"
you're either pregnant or not - what's this "little pregnant" supposed to mean?
I'll pop over and wish Sassy a happy birthday
betty
What about: open secret, clearly misunderstood, black light, cold sweat, extinct life, plastic glasses, tight slacks, found missing, silent scream and clear as mud. Barbara
ReplyDeleteLet's see: Pretty Ugly is the only one that comes to my mind.
ReplyDeleteBarb
The first thing that came to mind is what I call myself.
ReplyDeleteidealistic realist
I'm very strange. : )
Angela
Great entry I'm of for a think ........Jan xx
ReplyDeletewhat about what has been in the news. "friendly" killer whale.
ReplyDeleteKathy
There are several in the prologue of romeo and juliet--which of course my copy is at school
ReplyDeleteI will get back to you on this!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
j
dont know what the heck ...guess i am a dumb blonde
ReplyDeleteJUST WHAT WE DID IN IRAQ TODAY---DEFENSIVE STRIKE--- ROBERTA
ReplyDeletespend thrift ---- thrift is a reluctance to spend money ---- spend is to spend or not thrifty ------ how did it ever get to be spend thrift? mark
ReplyDeleteI'm way late, BUT, the most often used and abused oxymoron is: MILITARY INTELLIGENCE!! (remember, I'm retitred USAF so I can use this!! LOL)
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