play on words
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"A boiled egg for breakfast is hard to beat." The word beat in the sentence can be interpreted as meaning "be better than", giving the sentence the meaning "it is hard for anything to be better than a boiled egg for breakfast", or as meaning "mix rapidly" in which the sentence would mean "it is hard to rapidly mix a boiled egg in preparation for breakfast". |
play on words (plural plays on words)
- (idiomatic) A pun, or similar humorous use of language such as a double entendre.
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pun or similar humorous use of language
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