St. Patrick’s Day is a religious holiday dating back to the 17th Century. But for most people, it’s far from a solemn occasion. On the contrary, it’s a whimsical celebration of Irish heritage, immoderate drinking, and the color green. As luck would have it, the unique customs of St. Paddy’s Day provide lots of material …
You can take it, lose it, follow it, cross it, or wear it on your sleeve. It can be hard, warm, full, heavy, stout, broken, or bleeding. You can pour it out or speak straight from it. We’re talking of course about the heart. As you can see, there are plenty of English expressions featuring …
Corn is everywhere. It’s on the dinner table, at the movie theater, and served up in one form or another in just about every country in the world. It’s also a major food source for livestock – in other words, it’s a food that feeds our food. All of that makes corn good fodder for …
Making puns about vegetables is easy peasy. Not only do they come in an astounding number of varieties – from the puny pea to the plump pumpkin – but they crop up in lots of different English expressions. These qualities plant the seeds for some seriously corny wordplay. To show you what we mean, we’ve …
Why do babies command so much attention? There are lots of reasons, including the fact that we’re hard-wired to love and protect our own kind. However, the simplest explanation is that babies are just friggin’ cute. Anyhoo, because people are so fascinated and obsessed with babies, it’s only natural that there are many English words …
Perhaps you’ve heard the oft-repeated factoid that the Eskimos have dozens of words for snow. The English language doesn’t have quite that many, but it does have plenty of expressions related to the white stuff. In fact, you might say there’s snow shortage of such sayings (if you catch my drift). As you can see, …
The word “cheesy” has a couple of different meanings. It can literally refer to cheese, that miraculous food of the gods that makes life worth living. Or it can mean something corny, tawdry, or kitschy (by far the more common meaning on this site). In this list of funny cheese puns, both senses of the …
“I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream.” That punny old saying dates back to 1927, and remains more or less true today. Most of us do scream for ice cream, especially if the ice cream truck is trundling past with no sign of stopping. While nearly everyone loves ice cream, punsters have …
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What is it about alcohol that encourages clever wordplay? Maybe it’s the fact that there are so many different varieties and brands of liquor, many of them with funny sounding names. Or it could be because people have been drinking – and talking about drinking – for so long that a rich vocabulary of booze …
Witches have come a long way. In the past, to be identified as a witch meant being feared, despised, and persecuted. Today, people dress as witches each October without the slightest fear of being burned at the stake. In fact, an increasing number of people make witchcraft a year-round lifestyle. The mystique of witches, combined …
You can be as pale as a ghost, pass through a ghost town, look as though you’ve seen a ghost, not stand a ghost of a chance, and read a book written by a ghostwriter. And if you get tired of all that ghostly business, you can give up the ghost. As you can see, …
Of all the things that go bump in the night, skeletons are probably the goofiest. Unlike their fleshy cousins, the zombies, they don’t have a gory agenda. Instead, they’re usually either comic relief or sympathetic characters like Jack Skellington in The Nightmare Before Christmas. The patently silly nature of skeletons makes them an ideal subject …
