Do you have a favourite word you like to enunciate at full volume?
A few more:
I’ve been passed from pillow to post.
It's just rubbing salt into the womb.
I'm on tender hooks.
I want some cold slaw on my salad.
I feel like a social leopard.
Have you heard some you would like to let us know about?
The origin of many of these phrases was a children's word game from several centuries ago.
Can you think of more word pairs that follow this pattern? We're sure there's plenty more!
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Awfully good some of these, aren't they? ;)
The extract on the left shows how William Shakespeare used oxymorons to great effect in one of the earliest speeches from Romeo and Juliet.
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