Arnold Zwicky's Blog

To inaugurate the weekend, a little pun package from Hilary Price:

This is a species of pun in which the parts of an idiom are unpacked and interpreted literally (or at least in non-idiomatic senses available for the parts). And, in this case, with an unlikely juxtaposition of ideas.

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