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Examples of pun
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Let's look at three big plays and how Toyota is, pardon the pun, moving forward.
From the forbes.com
The title's a pun, by the way, to those who remember their history of communism.
From the kentucky.com
But it's not really a pun, because the two words don't work at all the same way.
From the economist.com
It's the irresistible pun on Marc Pascal's profession but it happens to be true.
From the smh.com.au
Unless you're going for an extremely subtle play on Johnson's Yuan more pun post.
From the economist.com
Instead, and pardon the pun, jurors simply gave themselves an intentional walk.
From the theatlantic.com
Lunar Ale is another example of Kelly's full-blown landscapes, with a visual pun.
From the sacbee.com
A translator from many tongues, she loves a pun, even when mourning a dead pooch.
From the washingtonpost.com
And too lazy to use their computers on anything but, pardon the pun, autopilot.
From the economist.com
- A humorous play on words; "I do it for the pun of it"; "his constant punning irritated her"
- Make a play on words; "Japanese like to pun--their language is well suited to punning"
- The pun, or paronomasia, is a form of word play which exploits numerous meanings of a statement, allowing it to be understood in multiple ways for an intended humorous or rhetorical effect. ...
- Pan is family name originated from China. Pan also is often romanized as Poon, Pun, or Pon. The surname is spelled as Poon or Pun in Hong Kong and Macau, Ban (formerly, Pan) in South Korea and Phan in Vietnam.
- A joke or type of wordplay in which similar senses or sounds of two words or phrases, or different senses of the same word, are deliberately confused; To tell a pun, to make a play on words
- (Puns) are not usually considered sound devices but are dependent upon the sound for their meaning. They are a humorous play on words using two words which sound alike but have different meaning. I'd give my soul for a new sole.
- Double meaning or ambiguity in a word, often employed in a witty way. Puns are often associated with wordplay.
- The humorous use of a word or phrase so as to emphasize or suggest its different meanings or applications, or the use of words that are alike or nearly alike in sound but different in meaning; a play on words.
- An expression that uses a homonym (two different words spelled identically) to deliver two or more meanings at the same time. For example, "When Professor Fudge asked his graduate students to bring a really good lay to the next class, their collective opinion of the scholar went up a notch."
