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Oxymorons
Oxymorons
This could be a short one unless we can get inventive!
There are the old favourites, like "Army Intelligence" of course . . .
I will open with:
council initiative
There are the old favourites, like "Army Intelligence" of course . . .
I will open with:
council initiative
"Look forward; yesterday was a lesson, if you did not learn from it you wasted it."
Me, 2015
Me, 2015
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political integrity
"The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge." Bertrand Russell
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not comic ones, but Emma mentioned "coercive persuasion" in connection with brainwashing. I also love the Miltonic "servile pomp" from "Paradise Lost"
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creation science
"The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge." Bertrand Russell
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inspired by JW's, I'm reminded of John Betjeman's "Come Friendly Bombs" - hope noone here lives in Slough, where he was inviting the bombs to fall!jaywhat wrote:friendly bankmanager
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awfully good and simply mindboggling!
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tough love
I have mentioned "servile pomp" already - there is also "lowly pomp", from the hymn about Jesus's entry to Jerusalem
I have mentioned "servile pomp" already - there is also "lowly pomp", from the hymn about Jesus's entry to Jerusalem
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shameless self-advertisement (or not ?)