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Sentence composed of homonyms

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Hip hip hooray

Cheer to express congratulation

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As the crow flies

Idiom meaning the shortest distance between two points

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Bed of roses

English-language expression for a carefree life

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Bullseye (philately)

Type of stamp cancellation

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Darby and Joan

British expression for a happily married couple

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Fig leaf

Artistic or metaphorical censorship practice

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Gratis versus libre

Two meanings of "free" in English

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Etaoin shrdlu

Common metal-type printing error

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Hear, hear

Expression

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Line in the sand

Idiom with figurative and literal meanings

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Frodo Lives!

Counterculture slogan

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Mumbo jumbo (phrase)

Phrase for confusing or meaningless language

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Mazel tov

Jewish phrase for congratulations

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Once upon a time

Opening line of fairytales

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Run it up the flagpole

Catchphrase popular in the United States

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Ship of fools

Allegory by Plato

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Meanwhile, back at the ranch

English phrase

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Objects in mirror are closer than they appear

Safety warning on convex mirrors

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Poisoning the well

Type of informal fallacy

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Silent treatment

Refusal to communicate with someone who desires communication

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Thinking man's crumpet

Humorous slang term

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Teach fish how to swim
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Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana

Example of syntactic ambiguity

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What's that got to do with the...?

Common English expression

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The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog

Sentence containing all letters of the English alphabet

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Suffer fools gladly

Biblical phrase

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15 minutes of fame

Short-lived media publicity or celebrity

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Horse trading

Complex bargaining or exchange

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Spiritual but not religious

Philosophy

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Long time no see

Greeting phrase in English

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At Dulcarnon

English phrase – at the end of one's wits

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Cupboard love

Psychoanalytic theory of attachment

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Cut and run

English expression

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Agree to disagree

Tolerating but not accepting another's position

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And/or

Grammatical conjunction purported to give more information than 'or'

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Crime of the century

Idiomatic phrase

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By hook or by crook

English phrase

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Dumbing down

Deliberate oversimplification of intellectual content

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Greek to me

Idiom for knowledge not understandable

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Great Scott

Exclamation of surprise or dismay

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God bless you

English phrase

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Lipstick on a pig

Idiom

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Kick the bucket

English idiom meaning "to die"

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Fall guy

Person who is wrongly blamed for a bad outcome

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I'm alright, Jack

British expression

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No soap radio

Joke phrase

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Nappy Valley

Colloquial epithet

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Pardon my French

English phrase disguising profanity as words from the French language

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Trial by media

Perception of one's guilt or innocence via coverage

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