It’s Oxymora, Idiotsavants, not Oxymorons
Oxymora from T to Z
T
- talk show
- taped live
- targeted spam
- tax cut
- tax-free
- tax return
- tax simplification
- teacher union
- telepresence
- temporary tax increase
- tense calm
- tentative conclusion
- terribly enjoyable
- terribly good
- terribly nice
- terribly pleased
- terminal initialization
- Texas chic
- three originals
- thunderous silence
- tight slacks
- toll free
- tomorrows’ headlines today
- tomorrow today
- totalitarian democracy
- traditionally radical
- tragic comedy
- train schedule
- transient stability
- traumatic bonding
- tremendously small
- troubled paradise
- true counterfeit
- true fiction
- true gossip
- true illusion
- true lies
- true story
- truth in advertising
- turned up missing
- turkey ham
- two-breasted Amazon
U
- unacceptable solution
- UN designated safe haven
- unbiased opinion
- unbiased journalism
- unbiased news report
- unbiased predisposition
- uncommonly common
- uncommonly normal
- uncontested divorce
- uncrowned king
- understanding editors
- understanding unix (computer)
- union workers
- United Methodists
- United Nations
- United Nations Bosnian Safe Area
- United States
- university funding
- unknown identity
- unrepeatable pleonasm
- unsalted saltines
- unspoken suggestion
- unsung hero
- unthaw
- unusual routine
- unwelcome recess
- user friendly
V
- vaguely aware
- veiled accusation
- vigorously ignoring (the Republican Convention because I’m on vacation.), attributed to President Bill Clinton
- violent agreement
- virgin wool
- virtual reality
- vices of our virtues (a title of an article, “The Vices of our Virtues” by Robert J. Samuelson
in The Washington Post, early 1996)
- voluntary taxes
- voodoo science
- voting power
W
- waiting patiently
- waning crescent
- war games
- war, a just (a just war)
- waste management
- wealthy professor
- weather forecaster
- wedded bliss
- well-preserved ruins
- white chocolate
- white gold
- white negro
- white rose
- whole half
- whole hemisphere
- whole part
- wise fool (sophomore)
- withheld contribution
- wisdom of Congress
- wordless book
- work party
- working breakfast
- working hobby
- working lunch
- working vacation
Y
- yawning orgasm
- young Republican
- young sixty
Z
- zero defects
- zero deficit
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