Oxymorons
Favorite oxymorons
- Good morning!
- a little big
- pretty ugly
- standard deviation
- awfully good
- automatic temperature control (from my old washing machine)
- from Windows programming, the constant
ERROR_SUCCESS
- bigger half
- from a local Chinese restaurant, Bean Curd Delight
- red-winged blackbird
- Triangle Square (shopping center in RTP, North Carolina)
- middle initial (or second initial, or last initial)
- Kansas City, Missouri
- Je ne parle pas français, No hablo español, Non parlo italiano, and so forth
- someone yelling, "be quiet!"
- bonus double oxymoron: senate intelligence committee (thanks to Mike B.)
Self-redundant phrases
- very last
- first initial
- tuna fish, tomato catsup, cheese quesadilla
- Could you repeat that again?
- hot-water heater
- PIN number, ATM machine
- on some California license plates: “Sesquicentennial—150 Years”
- Easter Sunday
- “We specialize in all cars, foreign and domestic” (thanks, Dan)
- close proximity
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