- but
perhaps descends into sarcasm, or
otherwise is
short of a point. A
witticism also
suggests the diminutive.
Repartee is the wit of the
quick answer...
- "When the
going gets tough, the
tough get going" is a po****r
phrase of
witticism in
American English. The
phrase is an
example of an antimetabole. The...
-
language is a
dialect with an army and navy",
sometimes called the
Weinreich witticism, is a quip
about the
arbitrariness of the
distinction between a dialect...
- Type of
witticism...
-
brought peace to
troubled waters.
Elizabeth was well
known for her dry
witticisms. On
hearing that
Edwina Mountbatten was
buried at sea, she said: "Dear...
-
journalist and
author of the 1920s and 1930s and is
noted for his many
witticisms.
Tartakower was born on 9 (21)
February 1887 in Rostov-on-Don, Russia...
- from 27 July to 10
August 2015. The
title comes from
Dorothy Parker's
witticism that the
Bloomsbury Group,
whose lives it portrays, had "lived in squares...
- persuading. Quip: a
clever or
humorous saying based on an observation.
Witticism: a
saying that is
clever and
usually humorous and that is
notable for...
- In rhetoric,
antanaclasis (/æntəˈnækləsɪs, ˌæntænəˈklæsɪs/; from the Gr****: ἀντανάκλασις, antanáklasis,
meaning "reflection", from ἀντί anti, "against"...
- 2001). "His aim is true: Nick Lowe has
found the way to play
wisdom over
witticism". No Depression.
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original on 10
November 2013. Retrieved...
