What is an Oxymoron?
An Oxymoron is a combination of contradictory or incongruous words, such as 'Cruel Kindness' or 'Jumbo Shrimp' (Jumbo means 'large' while Shrimp means 'small').
An oxymoron term is a literary figure of speech in which opposite or contradictory words, phrases, terms or ideas are combined to create a rhetorical effect by paradoxical means.
Ever wondered how many Oxymorons we use in our daily vocabulary??? Check some of them
Religious Education
Logical Guess
Good pun
Great Depression
American Cheese
Express Mail
Restless Sleep
Clear as Mud
Friendly Fire
Hamburger Steak
Assisted Suicide
Woman Driver (Personal Best)
Fair Fight
Women's Rights (Really ?)
Literal Interpretation
Awful Grate
Conservative Movement
Meteoric Rise
Dropping Like Flies
Out Like a Light
Reality Television
Government Worker ( In India ? )
Long Shorts
Authentic Reproduction
Partial Cease-fire
Limited Lifetime Guarantee
Self-help Group
Civil war
Mandatory options
Common sense
Hot water heater
Adult male
Uninvited guest
Airline schedule
Open Secret
Mideast peace
Dry lake
Silent Alarm
Reasonable Attorney's Fees
Live recording
Non-Stop Flight
Non-Dairy Creamer
Marital bliss
Clearly confused
Wireless Cable
Holy war
Mutual Differences
Legislative restraint
Congressional ethics
Original copy
Act naturally
Found missing
True replica
Resident alien
Advanced BASIC
Country Music (thanks to Cute Kate)
Genuine imitation
Airline Food
Good grief
Same difference
Almost exactly
Government organization
Sanitary landfill
Alone together
Legally drunk
Silent scream
British fashion
Living dead
Small crowd
Business ethics
American culture
Athletic scholarship
Black Light
Chili
Corporate planning
Media scrutiny
Forward lateral
Definite maybe
Liberal values
Good television
Honest politician
Jumbo shrimp
Logical Thought
Moral Majority
Never generalize
Plastic glasses
Postal service
Practical logic
President Bush
Standard options
Rapid transit
Social Security
Sweet sorrow
Union craftsman
Highly depressed
Soft rock
Butt Head
Military Intelligence
Software documentation
New York culture
New classic
Childproof
"Now, then..."
Synthetic natural gas
Christian Scientists
Passive aggressive
Taped live
Clearly misunderstood
Peace force
Extinct life
Temporary tax increase
Computer jock
Computer security
Political science
Tight slacks
Pretty ugly
Twelve-ounce pound cake
Diet ice cream
Rap music (thanks to Gregory Seel)
Working vacation
Exact estimate
Religious tolerance
Campaign reform
Microsoft Works
Bitter sweet
Sensitive man
Freezer burn
Compassionate conservative
Legal principles
Monday, August 23, 2010
Sunday, August 22, 2010
English - The Funny Language
There is no egg in eggplant nor ham in hamburger; neither apple nor pine in pineapple. English muffins were not invented in England or French fries in France. Sweetmeats are candies, while sweetbreads, which aren't sweet, are meat. We take English for granted. But if we explore its paradoxes, we find that quicksand can work slowly, boxing rings are square, and a guinea pig is neither from Guinea nor is it a pig.
And why is it that writers write, but fingers don't fing, grocers don't groce, and hammers don't ham? If the plural of tooth is teeth, why isn't the plural of booth beeth? One goose, 2 geese. So, one moose, 2 meese? One index, two indices? Is cheese the plural of choose?
If teachers taught, why didn't preachers praught? If a vegetarian eats vegetables, what does a humanitarian eat?
In what language do people recite at a play, and play at a recital?
Ship by truck, and send cargo by ship? Have noses that run and feet that smell? Park on driveways and drive on parkways? How can a slim chance and a fat chance be the same, while a wise man and a wise guy are opposites? How can the weather be hot as hell one day and cold as hell another?
When a house burns up, it burns down. You fill in a form by filling it out, and an alarm clock goes off by going on.
When the stars are out, they are visible, but when the lights are out, they are invisible. And why, when I wind up my watch, I start it, but when I wind up this blog, I end it
And why is it that writers write, but fingers don't fing, grocers don't groce, and hammers don't ham? If the plural of tooth is teeth, why isn't the plural of booth beeth? One goose, 2 geese. So, one moose, 2 meese? One index, two indices? Is cheese the plural of choose?
If teachers taught, why didn't preachers praught? If a vegetarian eats vegetables, what does a humanitarian eat?
In what language do people recite at a play, and play at a recital?
Ship by truck, and send cargo by ship? Have noses that run and feet that smell? Park on driveways and drive on parkways? How can a slim chance and a fat chance be the same, while a wise man and a wise guy are opposites? How can the weather be hot as hell one day and cold as hell another?
When a house burns up, it burns down. You fill in a form by filling it out, and an alarm clock goes off by going on.
When the stars are out, they are visible, but when the lights are out, they are invisible. And why, when I wind up my watch, I start it, but when I wind up this blog, I end it
Aint this funny
Wednesday, August 18, 2010
Siddhuisms
Navjot Singh Sidhu is more famous for his exceptional "Jonty Rhodes" like fielding and batting with a big heart against any opponent. But he later had a greater fan following with his own Idioms named "Siddhuisms"... For all those who don't know much about this great Sardar, a few of Siddhuism for all u cricketing and non-cricketing fans
1. Statistics are like bikinis… what they reveal is suggestive, what they hide are essential!
2. Spit on your hands! Take the black flag! And start slitting throats!
3. Wickets are like wives… you never know which way they will turn!
4. He looks like a brooding hen over a China egg!
5. It is very difficult to kill a man who is hell bent on committing suicide!
6. He is as innocent as a freshly laid egg!
7. When you are dining with the demons, you’ve got to have a long spoon!
8. If ‘ifs and buts’ were ‘pots and pants’ there would be no tinkers!
9. The ball went so high it could have got an airhostess on its way down!
10. This team is like bicycles in a cycle stand… one falls and the entire row falls!
11. The scoreboard is running faster than an Indian Taximeter!
12. The batsman is like a three-wheeler. Sucks a lot of fuel, but cannot go beyond 30!
13. The wily fox is back… it is an ill omen when a fox licks the lambs!
14. A big outcry but no outcome!
15. All that comes from a cow is not milk!
16. Just because a rose smells sweet, you do not use it in the soup!
17. There is light at the end of the tunnel for India, but it's that of an incoming train which will run them over
19. Experience is like a comb that life gives you when you are bald.
20. This quote was made after Ganguly called Dravid for a run and midway sent him back and Dravid was run out in the third test against the West Indies at Barbados."Ganguly has thrown a drowning man both ends of the rope."
25. The Indians are going to beat the Kiwis! Let me tell you, my friend that the Kiwi is the only bird in the whole world, which does not have wings!
26. As uncomfortable as a bum on a porcupine.
27. The ball whizzes past like a bumble -bee and the Indians are in the sea.
28. The Indians are finding the gaps like a pin a haystack.
29. The pitch is as dead as a dodo.
30. Deep Dasgupta is as confused as a child is in a topless bar!
31. The way Indian wickets are falling reminds of the cycle stand at Rajendra Talkies in Patiala one falls and everything else falls!
32. Indian team without Sachin is like giving Kiss without a Squeeze.
33. You cannot make Omelets without breaking the eggs.
34. Deep Dasgupta is not a Wicket Keeper, he is a goalkeeper. He must be given a free transfer to Manchester United.
35. He will fight a rattlesnake and give it the first two bites too.
36. One, who doesn't throw the dice, can never expect to score a six.
37. This quote was made after Eddie Nichols, the third umpire; ruled Shivnarine Chanderpaul 'NOT OUT' in the second test at Port of Spain T&T "Eddie Nichols is a man who cannot find his own buttocks with his two hands."
38. Anybody can pilot a ship when the sea is calm.
39. Nobody travels on the road to success without a puncture or two.
40. You got to choose between tightening your belt or losing your pants.
41. The cat with gloves catches no mice.
42. Age has been perfect fire extinguisher for flaming youth.
43. You may have a heart of gold, but so does a hard-boiled egg.
44. He is like a one-legged man in a bum kicking competition.
45. The third umpires should be changed as often as nappies and for the same reason.
46. Kumble's bowling at the moment is flat as a Dosa.
1. Statistics are like bikinis… what they reveal is suggestive, what they hide are essential!
2. Spit on your hands! Take the black flag! And start slitting throats!
3. Wickets are like wives… you never know which way they will turn!
4. He looks like a brooding hen over a China egg!
5. It is very difficult to kill a man who is hell bent on committing suicide!
6. He is as innocent as a freshly laid egg!
7. When you are dining with the demons, you’ve got to have a long spoon!
8. If ‘ifs and buts’ were ‘pots and pants’ there would be no tinkers!
9. The ball went so high it could have got an airhostess on its way down!
10. This team is like bicycles in a cycle stand… one falls and the entire row falls!
11. The scoreboard is running faster than an Indian Taximeter!
12. The batsman is like a three-wheeler. Sucks a lot of fuel, but cannot go beyond 30!
13. The wily fox is back… it is an ill omen when a fox licks the lambs!
14. A big outcry but no outcome!
15. All that comes from a cow is not milk!
16. Just because a rose smells sweet, you do not use it in the soup!
17. There is light at the end of the tunnel for India, but it's that of an incoming train which will run them over
19. Experience is like a comb that life gives you when you are bald.
20. This quote was made after Ganguly called Dravid for a run and midway sent him back and Dravid was run out in the third test against the West Indies at Barbados."Ganguly has thrown a drowning man both ends of the rope."
25. The Indians are going to beat the Kiwis! Let me tell you, my friend that the Kiwi is the only bird in the whole world, which does not have wings!
26. As uncomfortable as a bum on a porcupine.
27. The ball whizzes past like a bumble -bee and the Indians are in the sea.
28. The Indians are finding the gaps like a pin a haystack.
29. The pitch is as dead as a dodo.
30. Deep Dasgupta is as confused as a child is in a topless bar!
31. The way Indian wickets are falling reminds of the cycle stand at Rajendra Talkies in Patiala one falls and everything else falls!
32. Indian team without Sachin is like giving Kiss without a Squeeze.
33. You cannot make Omelets without breaking the eggs.
34. Deep Dasgupta is not a Wicket Keeper, he is a goalkeeper. He must be given a free transfer to Manchester United.
35. He will fight a rattlesnake and give it the first two bites too.
36. One, who doesn't throw the dice, can never expect to score a six.
37. This quote was made after Eddie Nichols, the third umpire; ruled Shivnarine Chanderpaul 'NOT OUT' in the second test at Port of Spain T&T "Eddie Nichols is a man who cannot find his own buttocks with his two hands."
38. Anybody can pilot a ship when the sea is calm.
39. Nobody travels on the road to success without a puncture or two.
40. You got to choose between tightening your belt or losing your pants.
41. The cat with gloves catches no mice.
42. Age has been perfect fire extinguisher for flaming youth.
43. You may have a heart of gold, but so does a hard-boiled egg.
44. He is like a one-legged man in a bum kicking competition.
45. The third umpires should be changed as often as nappies and for the same reason.
46. Kumble's bowling at the moment is flat as a Dosa.
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