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Holy Holophrase!: Naming Your Favorite Aggravations
Paperback
ISBN13: 9781647192877
Publisher: Booklocker.Com Inc
Published: Jan 25 2021
Pages: 102
Weight: 0.28
Height: 0.21 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Take a common aggravation. Your cat misbehaves. Or you suffer indignities while driving. Or at the supermarket. Or at the doctor's office.
You grumble a bit, but then have an idea: Holophrasis! That means using one word to capture the situation! Hmmm. Let's deploy or invent an amusing word, and have some fun with misery!
That's just what El McMeen does in this rib-tickling book.
You'll be LOL and nodding in agreement as you enjoy it!
Examples:
You are at the grocery store, and another customer is doing dumb things and clogging the aisle. You have encountered Dopeandhoggin!
When your cat refuses to use the scratching pole, she is practicing Polavoid!
When the tailgater passes you at warp speed, you are experiencing the feeling of Mayacopseeya.
The book also deals with euphemisms - taking difficult subjects and making them sound nice and pleasant. El shares his two favorites in the book, one having to do with airplanes landing and one having to do with drugs (legal ones).
There are plenty of others that will have you chuckling, and making up your own holophrases!
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