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Oxymorons
By: nataliestpete Date: May 23, 2018, 4:17 am
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Could you explain the meaning of 'oxymoron' please and give some
examples? = > a combination of incongruous?
For example, Sergey Polunin, whose video dancing I posted
recently, is a classic ballet dancer but he has eight tattoos,
which is considered to be out of norm and rather unexpected.
Thank you
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Re: Oxymorons
By: Susan Date: May 23, 2018, 10:17 am
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I usually think of oxymorons as phrases like ¨jumbo shrimp¨ in
which the idea of ¨jumbo¨ is incongruent with the word ¨shrimp.¨
Couldn´t think of others till I found this link, which has many
examples
HTML http://examples.yourdictionary.com/examples-of-oxymorons.html
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Re: Oxymorons
By: Susan Date: May 23, 2018, 10:20 am
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I have never thought of things like that video as oxymorons
because I thought oxymorons strictly relate to the words
themselves. I have never used the word ¨oxymoron¨ to describe
situations or people, just phrases.
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Re: Oxymorons
By: Truman Overby Date: May 27, 2018, 10:13 am
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Tattoos on a ballet dancer? I'd call it an incongruous
juxtaposition. ;D
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Re: Oxymorons
By: SHL Date: June 9, 2018, 12:23 pm
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The famous one is „flaming snowballs.“
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