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plays on words
n. (play on words English)
Usage examples of "plays on words".
When he invites the Pharisees to cast the first stone, when he asks whose image is ob the coin to be paid in tribute, when he plays on words and says ‘.
The most august, most sublime, and most charming in humanity and perhaps out of humanity, have made plays on words.
Though he knew much less Sylvan than the people speaking with her, Rik's glib tongue and quick wit often served to make plays on words.
But the Heechee language provided many opportunities for puns and plays on words, and she was quickly called by a nickname, a word very much like &ldquo.
He'd come too close to dying to make jokes, or even feeble plays on words, about it.