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What is an Oxymoron?
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Oxymoron Definition:
ox·y·mo·ron*
[ok-si-mawr-on, -mohr-]
-noun, plural ox·y·mo·ra
[ok-si-mawr-uh, -mohr-uh]
, ox·y·mor·ons. Rhetoric .
a figure of speech by which a locution produces an incongruous, seemingly self-contradictory effect, as in "cruel kindness" or "to make haste slowly."
Oxymoron, collectively is known as examples of oxymora and not oxymorons, as it is often mis-spelled.
Now that we have understood the basics a 'little clearly', let us meet the doctors to find out the 'accidental' parts of it.
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"One man's Perception is another man's Misconception"
Academic Accidents
- Accurate Estimate - An approximate estimate, supposed to be accurate
- Act Naturally - Should I act or should I be myself?
- All Ends Up - A Popular Yoga Asana (Posture)
- Almost done - Must be well begun (just when you asked)
- American English - An American who visits or relocates to England
- Among the First - Another name for all the first-graders
- Anti-Missile Missile - One that explodes when you press the 'FIRE' button
- Anxious Patient - Is there any other way to be patient?
- Authentic Replica - AKA - The Original Duplicate - Blame in on Xerox
- Bare Minimum - A research undertaken by Quantum Physicists
- Bed Bug - That is what happens when you sleep with 'incompatible' partners
- Better Half - No wonder the grass is greener on the 'Other Side'
- Beyond the Boundary - Reset the boundary; it is not binding all within
- Bitter Sweet - Somebody's got the spelling wrong
- Bread Crumbs - It is also acceptable to say crumbs of bread and butter - As legal as Butter Crumbs!
- Brief Survey - A survey taken while wearing briefs
- Blind Faith - The art of keeping your faithful followers - Blind
- Blissfully Ignorant - An Enlightened Person who forgot to tie his shoe-laces
- Blue Blood - The color of the Blood for the Blue-Collar Workers
- Break Wind - Giving the trapped air an After-lunch break... Oops! the wind is broken!
- Car Pool - Another name for the Parking Lot
- Childproof - One who is on 'Birth-Control"
- Casual Effort - The reason for causalities
- Charged Up - Opposite of Downward Discharge
- Clear Mind - Happens when you are totally 'Blank'
- Conscious Effort - All other efforts are done in a comatose state
- Cream Cracker - Oops! There is a crack in my cream
- Criminal Brain - All the other parts are innocent
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A Break from the Back
- Damn Good - The Good be damned
- Day Dreaming - For Writers, it is trying to escape from the Writer's Block... The days are dreaming and the nights are sleeping!
- Doing Nothing - Another name for Writer's Block.... Nothing doing!
- Disposable Income - Tax, by any other name
- Dreaming Big - Don't restrict yourself, you cannot avoid it even if you want to
- Dry Martini - Happens when you have had one too many - The one left in the glass dries up
- Dry Wine - Wine Made out of Raisins
- Easy Money - Money which effortlessly slips out of the pocket
- Ethical Hacker - The one, who would sneak your passwords out and swipe your accounts clean and then say 'Sorry'
- Extra time - Wearing a watch in both the hands
- Fail Safe - One that will fail safely
- Fair Weather Friend - A neighborhood Weatherman who is good in his predictions
- Fast Food - Food that is kept in front of you when you observe a 'Fast'
- Flea Market - A market where they sell fleas
- Fountain Soda - An artificially created jet or stream of Soda
- Free Market - A market where everything is free
- Free Market Economy - A Country with the policy where you don't have to pay a dime for anything
- French Fries - Wonder what English is doing?
- Fresh Cream - Just creamed out of the Cow
- Friendly Fire - It won't burn you
- Fully Functional - Or 'Never Working'
- Going Nowhere - Do you remember the Writer's Block?
- Great Loss - Who does not like anything that is great?
- Green Peas - Do they come in any other color?
- Green Peace - A surrender by the Greenhorns... A person committed to be a non-vegetarian... One who has made peace with the greenery
- Gravy Train - A train which suffered a grievous accident'
Are you an OxyMoron?
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An Oxymoron is Practical
A-Redneck says:
Actually my brother called peas "green corn" for years when he was a little one (God only knows that we are still very thankful that he grew up to be normal). Now one could refer to him as a little oxymoron back then huh?
adamfrench says:
Did not know i was, till I met this lens
goo2eyes says:
shall i say oxymoron is practical?
goo2eyes says:
should i say practical?
ajgodinho says:
Asolutely! :)
MaxReily says:
I'm almost certain....
Donnette says:
Practical I think :)
cdcraftee says:
well-ll-ll, I have been known to use 'oxymoronic' as a self-description!
Figure that!
And thanks for visiting me,
Christine
ChrisDay says:
So many common figures of speech are not very clever when taken apart: like the 'vicious circle' - it's supposed to imply a worsening situation but a circle starts and ends in the same place! Yes, I think I'm an oxymoron - I'm a pragmatic idealist.
UKGhostwriter says:
Dead practical!
SereneSea says:
Quite practical sometimes when there is no other way to explain the facts.
An Oxymoron is an Exageration
mismatch says:
I'm not, I'm not, I'm not!!!!
Links to Great Oxymoron Sites
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High Time for High Tea
- Half Naked - Always wondered 'which' half
- Hard Liquor - 'Never' put your bottle in the Freezer
- Hard Time - There are also other things which become Hard, given Time
- Having a ball - What happened to the other one?
- Head Over Heels - Another Popular Yoga Asana (Posture)
- Hell Raiser - Given half a chance - He'll Elevate you to Heaven
- Here and There - At least it is there 'Somewhere'
- Hit List - Another Term for a Dart Board
- Home Office - Am at 'home' at the Office - Only the bed is missing
- Inside Out - Confessions from the one 'Who Puked'
- Insane - A person who is very much in Sanity
- Instant Gratification - The Progeny of Mister Bates
- Job Security - The Job of a Security
- Jump Up - Opposite of 'Pump Down'
- Junk Food - What is Left-over after you eat
- King's Court - They always do
- Liquid Crystal - A drink which helps you 'Crystallize' your thoughts
- Liquid Natural Gas - It is all 'But Gas'
- Middle East - The Half-Brother of 'West Central'
- Mother-in-Law - To many - an Outlaw
- Never say Never - Can hold some Value only if repeated for 'Ever'
- No Problem - A Problem 'without end'
- Nothing Much - Fell out, when Shakespeare decided to 'Shake his Spear' of Knowledge with 'Much Ado about Nothing'
- Old News - Fresh from the Archives
- Open Secret - A leaking Secret is also called as 'Secrete' - Lately Leaking through 'Wi-li' - The enhanced version of 'Wi-fi'
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- Perfect Ar&ehole - One who has clean toilet habits' and has no 'Piles'
- Perfect Idiot - One who has perfected all the idiosyncrasies of Life
- Pest Control - The Pests are controlling you
- Petty Cash - The last dime left in the pocket
- Pretty Ugly - Displeasing to the eye, but quite good at being pleasurable
- Relative Stranger - Any member of the Homo Erectus genome, who we can identify ourselves with
- Riot Police - A group of Government servants you can hire to conduct a Riot
- Risky Business - Repeated Insult to Superficial Knowledge
- Rocket Mom - A female Astronaut who visits the 'Outer Space' after Marriage
- Screwed - Fastened firmly and in place
- Screwed Royally - Fastened firmly with a Golden Screw and in place
- Shoot at Sight - To discharge your weapon while watching; A Cataract in your Eye
- Shotgun - A gun which has no bullets after it has been fired
- Sleeping Pill - Please 'Do Not Disturb' and wake it up
- Spell Bound - After you attend a Book-binding Workshop
- Style Statement - A well punctuated sentence
- True Story - A stack of facts one rues about
- Tax Return - Double Taxation coming back to haunt you
- Uncanny Ability - One who is not in a 'Canned' frame of mind and Differently Able
- Vacuum Cleaner - An instrument used for cleaning out the Vacuum
- Virtual Reality - Watching your favorite 'Soap' on TV
- Well Wisher - One who asks for a wish from the well
- Wishing Well - A well where you will find 'Wishes' instead of 'Fishes'
- Zebra Crossing - Wait for them to Cross
- Zero Deficit - When the last dollar bill in your pocket feels like a Million bucks
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- Bansal who was the chief guest, said, ?Intellect and politics are oxymoron?. In a lighter vein he said, addressing the audience, comprising writers, authors and artiste, that if tomorrow you decided to become politicians, then you were sure to lose ...
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- Green Games an oxymoron
- ?It's a slight oxymoron, the idea of the Olympic Games being sustainable,? said John Sauven, the executive director of the UK branch of environmental organisation Greenpeace. ?When you put on any event that lasts a weekend or a fortnight, ...
For a Moron who needs some 'Oxygen':
Your recommended dosage:
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alteredkat
May 25, 2012 @ 12:29 pm | delete
- Fun lens!...your intro photo works well...got me to smile and click on in.
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A-Redneck
May 21, 2012 @ 10:17 pm | delete
- Now I feel like an oxymoron!
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lclchors
Apr 29, 2012 @ 12:08 pm | delete
- fun lens
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Pinkchic18
Feb 21, 2012 @ 8:39 am | delete
- Fun lens!! Very well done :)
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adamfrench
Sep 24, 2011 @ 2:45 am | delete
- Thumbs up on this one, I will never take words for granted again. This is an Irish saying I heard. "If you are half right, your grand"
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goo2eyes
Sep 12, 2011 @ 5:05 pm | delete
- the brain need oxygen otherwise you will yawn a lot.
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ajgodinho Sep 5, 2011 @ 10:29 pm | delete
- LOL, these were funny indeed...had a good laugh...thanks! :)
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brbrooks
Sep 3, 2011 @ 3:26 pm | delete
- Nice lens, good job.
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bakerwoman Jul 27, 2011 @ 12:40 pm | delete
- I like the oxymoron "big shrimp" especially when seen on restaurant menus. Thanks for sharing a lighthearted lens.
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Shanir
Jul 8, 2011 @ 2:10 pm | delete
- Great lens!
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MaxReily
Jul 7, 2011 @ 1:35 pm | delete
- This lens is seriously funny! Terribly good! Awfully nice of you to create it. Thanks for the laughs we need the maximum recommended dose of oxymora.
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CruiseReady Jul 4, 2011 @ 4:08 pm | delete
- Great fun on this lens!
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cdcraftee
Jun 1, 2011 @ 5:09 am | delete
- Is there 'oxymoronica'?? You know,..similar to harmonica, and Veronica, etc
I suggest just 'bend the arm' and let it slide on down!
Works a treat, 'Downunder'
Christine (keeps on chuckling and chortling!)
PS security word is 'snugriff'....huh??
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ChrisDay
May 22, 2011 @ 11:57 pm | delete
- Superb thanks. A great rip into the world of oxymora. I have a pic of a sign that says: "random checks carried out regularly".
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Michael
May 11, 2012 @ 2:10 pm | delete
- I wonder if that's the same sign I spotted many years ago on the service road at Leicester Forest East Services on the M1 motorway. It began with something like "No access to the public...". I
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Othercat
May 6, 2011 @ 2:14 am | delete
- I love oxymorons! These are great. Blessed!
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karmicchristian
May 6, 2011 @ 2:17 am | delete
- Thank you for the Angel Blessings Othercat. Honored.
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sukkran May 5, 2011 @ 8:15 am | delete
- enjoyable read. thanks for this lovely lens.
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UKGhostwriter
Apr 30, 2011 @ 3:38 am | delete
- Excellent lens! - well done!
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SereneSea Apr 29, 2011 @ 3:42 am | delete
- This is really an intelligent lens about Oxymoron, this time I think, i understood what the word means. :) Hopefully I will be able to use it.
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