Oxymoron
Great Depression
Jumbo shrimp
Cruel to be kind
Pain for pleasure
Clearly confused
Act naturally
Beautifully painful
Painfully beautiful
Deafening silence
Pretty ugly
Pretty fierce
Pretty cruel
Definitely maybe
Living dead
Walking dead
Only choice
Amazingly awful
Alone together
Virtual reality
Random order
Original copy
Happy sad
Disgustingly delicious
Run slowly
Awfully good
Awfully delicious
Small crowd
Dark light
Light darkness
Dark snow
Open secret
Passive aggressive
Appear invisible
Awfully lucky
Awfully pretty
Big baby
Tiny elephant
Wake up dead
Goodbye reception
Growing smaller
Least favorite
True myth
Typically weird
Typically odd
Naturally strange
Weirdly normal
Unpopular celebrity
Worthless gold
Sad joy
Liquid food
Heavy diet
Noticeable absence
Quiet presence
Short wait
Sweet agony
Hyperbole
I’ve told you a million times!
It was so cold, I saw polar bears wearing jackets.
She is so dumb, she thinks Taco Bell is a Mexican phone company.
I am so hungry I could eat a horse.
I have a million things to do.
I had to walk 15 miles to school in the snow, uphill.
I had a ton of homework.
If I can’t buy that new game, I will die!
He is as skinny as a toothpick.
This car goes faster than the speed of light.
That new car costs a bazillion dollars.
We are so poor; we don’t have two cents to rub together.
That joke is so old, the last time I heard it I was riding on a dinosaur.
They ran like greased lightning.
He's got tons of money.
You could have knocked me over with a feather.
Her brain is the size of a pea.
He is older than the hills.
Onmatopoeia
Human Sounds
Voice: hum, grunt, mutter, chatter, yack or yak, blab, lisp, sneer, snicker, giggle, whimper, bawl, squeal, shriek, whoop
Nose and Mouth: shush, whistle, smooch, cluck, smack, crunch, munch, gulp, spit, sputter, splutter, slobber, cough, sniff, sniffle, hiccup, huff, snort, snore, belch
Hands: pat, clap, slap, smack
Animal Sounds
Dogs: woof, yip, yap, growl, snarl, howl
Cats: meow or miaow, mew, purr
Birds: chirp, cheep, tweet, peep, twitter, crow, squawk
Insects: buzz, chirp, hum
Vehicle Sounds
Engines: roar, hum, purr
Horns: honk, beep
Exhaust pipes: sputter, rumble
Brakes: squeal, screech
Other Sounds
Explosions: boom, bang, pop
Collisions: crash, bang, clash, wham, smack, whomp, whump, thump, bump
High Speed: zoom, whoosh, swoosh, zing
Actions: zip, tap, click, clip, snip, knock, rap, bang, thwack, flap, smack, smash
Objects: creak, squeak, pop, boing, sizzle, fizzle, flap
Groups of Objects: rustle, clack, clunk, clank, jingle, rattle, clatter
Sirens: blare, shriek
Alarms: ding, buzz, beep, clang
Music: drum, throb, thump, twang, plink, plunk, bong
Liquids: squish, slush, burble, gurgle, trickle, glug, splatter, squirt, fizz, plop
Air: puff, hiss, whistle, swoosh, whoosh
Electricity: buzz, hum, zap
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