Lexophile Axioms
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* A bicycle can't stand-alone; it is two tired.

 

* A will is a dead giveaway.

 

* Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana.

 

* A backward poet writes inverse

 

* In a democracy, it's your vote that counts; in feudalism, it's your Count that votes.

 

* A chicken crossing the road: poultry in motion.

 

* If you don't pay your exorcist, you can get repossessed.

 

* With her marriage, she got a new name and a dress.

 

* Show me a piano falling down a mineshaft and I'll show you A-flat miner.

 

* When a clock is hungry, it goes back four seconds.

 

* The guy who fell onto an upholstery machine was fully recovered.

 

* A grenade fell onto a kitchen floor in France resulted in Linoleum Blownapart.

 

* You are stuck with your debt if you can't budge it.

 

* Local Area Network in Australia: The LAN down under.

 

* He broke into song because he couldn't find the key.

 

* A calendar's days are numbered.

 

* A lot of money is tainted: 'Taint yours, and 'taint mine.

 

* A boiled egg is hard to beat.

 

* He had a photographic memory, which was never developed.

 

* A plateau is a high form of flattery.

 

* The short fortuneteller who escaped from prison: a small medium at large.

 

* Those who get too big for their britches will be exposed in the end.

 

* When you've seen one shopping center, you've seen  a mall.

 

* If you jump off a Paris bridge, you are in Seine.

 

* When she saw her first strands of gray hair, she thought she'd dye.

 

* Bakers trade bread recipes on a knead to know basis.

 

* Santa's helpers are subordinate clauses.

 

* Acupuncture: a jab well done.

 

* Marathon runners with bad shoes suffer the agony of de feet.

 

* It is better to have loved a short woman than never to have loved a tall.