play on words
文字游戏,戏言,词语游戏,双关语
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- : a pun or the act of punning.
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Examples
In other words, fluoride is a broad-spectrum, bipartisan, long-lasting magnet for dissent.
Just the hard-on before you shoot unarmed members of the public.
In other words, the free thinker defending freedom of thought.
In straight relationships with an age gap, words like ‘gold-digger’ and ‘trophy wife’ get thrown around.
In other words, the free speech exhibited by the folks at Charlie Hebdo was not virtuous—until there was a body count.
He prepared a glossary of provincial and archological words, intended for a supplement to Johnson's Dictionary.
I assure you, no matter how beautifully we play any piece, the minute Liszt plays it, you would scarcely recognize it!
But I hope at least to play to him a few times, and what is more important, to hear him play repeatedly.
This wasn't at all what he meant to say, and it sounded very ridiculous; but somehow the words wouldn't come straight.
On the morning after Ramona's disappearance, words had been spoken by each which neither would ever forget.