From Ann Burlingham, this zeugmatic dialogue from the tv series Leverage (“The Long Way Down Job”, season 4, episode 1, first aired 6/26/11), at 17:27: (1) Drexel gets paid and away scot-free (Drexel is the character John Drexel.) The verb gets here represents two different lexical items, with very different meanings, one in construction with … Continue reading Annals of zeugma