FOR ALL YOU LEXOPHILES (LOVERS OF WORDS)

 这些英语句子大多运用了谐音双关的修辞方法，又融合了脑筋急转弯的因素，读起来趣味十足，又能从中体会到英语的魅力！大家试试看:

 1. A bicycle can't stand alone because it is two-tired.

 2. What's the definition of a will? (It's a dead giveaway).

 3. Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.

 4. A backward poet writes inverse.

 5. In democracy it's your vote that counts; in feudalism it's your

count that votes.

 6. She had a boyfriend with a wooden leg, but broke it off.

 7. A chicken crossing the road is poultry in motion.

 8. If you don't pay your exorcist, you get repossessed.

 9. With her marriage she got a new name and a dress.

10. Show me a piano falling down a mineshaft and I'll show you A-flat

minor.

11. When a clock is hungry, it goes back four seconds.

12. The man who fell into an upholstery machine is fully recovered.

13. A grenade thrown into a kitchen in France would result in Linoleum

Blownapart.

14. You feel stuck with your debt if you can't budge it.

15. Local Area Network in Australia: the LAN down under.

16. He often broke into song because he couldn't find the key.

17. Every calendar's days are numbered.

18. A lot of money is tainted. 'Taint yours and 'taint mine.

19. A boiled egg in the morning is hard to beat.

20. He had a photographic memory which was never developed.

21. A plateau is a high form of flattery.

22. The short fortune teller who escaped from prison was a small medium

at large.

23. Those who get too big for their britches will be exposed in the

end.

24. When you've seen one shopping center, you've seen a mall.

25. Those who jump off a Paris bridge are in Seine.

26. When an actress saw her first strands of gray hair, she thought

she'd dye.

27. Bakers trade bread recipes on a knead to know basis.

28. Santa's helpers are subordinate Clauses.

29. Acupuncture is a jab well done.

30. Marathon runners with bad footwear suffer the agony of defeat.