42 Phrases A Lexophile Would Love

1. I wondered why the baseball was getting bigger. Then it hit me.
2. Police were called to a day care, where a three-year old was resisting a rest.
3. Did you hear about the guy whose whole left side was cut off? He's all right now.
4. The roundest knight at King Arthur's round table was Sir Cumference.
5. To write with a broken pencil is pointless.
6. When fish are in schools, they sometimes take debate.
7. The short fortune teller who escaped from prison was a small medium at large..
8. A thief who stole a calendar... go twelve months.
9. The burglar fell and broke his leg in wet cement. He became a hardened criminal.
10. Thieves who steal corn from a garden could be charged with stalking.
11. When the smog lifts in Los Angeles, U.C.L.A.
12. A math professor went crazy with the blackboard and did a number on it.
13. The professor discovered that his theory of earthquakes was on shaky ground.
14. Dead batteries are frequently given out free of charge.
15. If you take a laptop computer out for a run, you could jog your memory.
16. A dentist and manicurist fought tooth and nail.
17. A bicycle can't stand alone; it is two tired.
18. A will is a dead giveaway.
19. Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana.
20. A backward poet writes inverse.
21. In a democracy, it's your vote that counts; in feudalism, it's your Count that votes.
22. A chicken crossing the road is poultry in motion.
23. If you don't pay your exorcist, you could get repossessed.
24. With her marriage she got a new name and a dress.
25. Show me a piano falling down a mine shaft, and I'll show you A-flat miner.
26. When a clock gets hungry it goes back four seconds.
27. The guy who fell into an upholstery machine has fully recovered.
28. A grenade fell into a kitchen floor in France, and resulted in Linoleum Blownapart.
29. You are stuck with your debt if you can't budge it.
30. Local Area Netowrk in Australia: The LAN down under.
31. He broke into song because he couldn't find the key.
32. A calendar's days are numbered.
33. A boiled egg is hard to beat.
34. He had a photographic memory which was never developed.
35. A plateau is a high form of flattery.
36. Those who get too big for their britches will be exposed in the end.
37. When you've seen one shopping center, you've seen a mall.
38. If you jump off a Paris bridge, you are in Seine.
39. Bakers trade bread recipes on a knead to know basis.
40. Santa's helpers are subordinate clauses.
41. Acupuncture is a jab well done.
42. A lot of money is tainted: Taint yours, and it taint mine.