- an
accessory at the head (usually made of iron or
steel and
sometimes punningly shaped into the head and
horns of an
ovine ram) to do more
damage to a...
- in many
failed and
failing dot-com companies,
which were
referred to
punningly as dot-bombs, dot-cons or dot-gones. Many of the
surviving firms dropped...
- the Earl of
Onslow is
Festina lente (literally 'make
haste slowly'),
punningly interpreting 'on slow'. Similarly, the
motto of the
Burgh of Tayport,...
- Iran (IPA: /aɪˈræn/ or eye-RAN), the song was
heard by
Americans as "
punningly political at a time when Iran
itself was
making headlines around the clock"...
-
actually refer to the crisis, but as Dave
Thompson has said, the song was "
punningly political" to
American listeners. The 2012
Hollywood film Argo, which...
-
repeated for effect: zut, zut et zut !
There is an
album by
Frank Zappa,
punningly titled Zoot Allures. The
phrase is also used on the Sa****ay
Night Live...
- Ozzy
Osbourne during the
Diary of a
Madman tour. In 1982, Way
formed the
punningly titled Waysted with Fin Muir, Paul Raymond,
Frank Noon and
Ronnie Kayfield...
- in
fundraising for charity, the
hardest shot
competition that year was
punningly dubbed a "Chara"ty event. The shot p****ed Al Iafrate's
previous record...
-
widely known in his book on Gogol,
where he
romanized it as "poshlust" (
punningly: "posh" + "lust"). Poshlust,
Nabokov explained, "is not only the obviously...
-
pseudonyms Duck, Pasquale, Quixote, Bradman, Giovanni, and
Izetti (all
punningly connected with the name Don or Donald). He has also
written a book on...
