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Anonymous Posted 21 years ago
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oxymoron
white coffee / blood-red earth / white flesh .
can anybody please tell me if these are oxymoron.
can anybody please tell me if these are oxymoron.
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No I'm afraid not. An oxymoron is the pairing of two words that seem to contradict each other when you take them literally. Coffee can be white, earth can be blood-red, flesh can be white, there is nothing contradictory here.
- No I'm afraid not.
- An oxymoron is the pairing of two words that seem to contradict each other when you take them literally.
- Coffee can be white, earth can be blood-red, flesh can be white, there is nothing contradictory here.
- A good example of an oxymoron is the euphemism 'friendly fire', which is used to describe a death by being shot by accident by your own military.
- Clearly, fire (as in firing a gun) which kills you, is actually anything but friendly!
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No I'm afraid not.
An oxymoron is the pairing of two words that seem to contradict each other when you take them literally.
Coffee can be white, earth can be blood-red, flesh can be white, there is nothing contradictory here.
A good example of an oxymoron is the euphemism 'friendly fire', which is used to describe a death by being shot by accident by your own military.
An oxymoron is the pairing of two words that seem to contradict each other when you take them literally.
Coffee can be white, earth can be blood-red, flesh can be white, there is nothing contradictory here.
A good example of an oxymoron is the euphemism 'friendly fire', which is used to describe a death by being shot by accident by your own military.
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My favorite, and the only one I can ever think of when pressed for an example: military intelligence.
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