Have you noticed the minister’s alter ego?
I always hope that scotch tastes like butterscotch.
It doesn’t.
Not quite the same thing, but I spent a good hour at work this morning wondering which is more likely to make the universe explode: the fact that I have a daily calendar, or that I subscribe to a monthly journal.
Not quite the same thing at all, but one might expect awful and awesome to mean similar things, both that something is held in awe.
Are you supposed to milk a milkman?
No it doesn’t. It means conduct unbecoming a member of the Corps.
Conduct, of course, is when you’re against silver adhesive tape.
John Wayne Bobbit is well remembered.
My friend left his wife Ruth, and now he’s ruthless.
When it hasn’t rained in a while and you don’t use a sprinkler or some other irrigation tool or device you wind up with laundry.
If you spend a lot of your spare time drinking an odd assortment of liquors and alcoholic beverages, chances are that you’ll get barfly.
And just to pay homage to the master of Deep Thoughts:
Inferred: a suggestion of a photograph; antonym: infrared
Epitome: a giant book
Laconic: when a land-locked body of water is on top of something really nasty.
Target: retrieve a thick, black, viscous substance made of hydrocarbons.
I was so very tempted to start a new thread on this topic, but I decided to leave it buried here so as not to call undue attention to it.
I propose a new word: flate
Not to be confused with inflate, deflate, conflate or any other -flate words already in general use.
The problem comes in defining just what “flate” has to mean. Verb, noun, adjective, whatever.
Notice how close flate is to flatter. That can’t be a coincidence, right?
And just imagine the possibilities:
Flateware
Flatetop
Flatehead
Flateworm
Flate Earth
Flateland
Flatechested