Oxymorons

[ America's Civil War ] [ American Revolution ] [ Genealogy Mine ] [ Memorial Day ] [ North American Indians ] [ Oxymorons ] [ Pennsylvania POW/MIA ] [ Shoah ] [ Standing With Israel ] [ War on Terror ]
[ Home ] [ Site Map ] [ Search This Site ]

• act naturally
• advanced Basic
• airline food
• airline schedule
• airport security
• almost exactly
• alone together
• Amtrak schedule
• anxious patient
• army intelligence
• authentic imitation
• authentic replica
• awfully good
• baby grand
• baked Alaska
• barely bald
• barely covered
• barely dressed
• big chip
• bittersweet
• burial benefits
• business ethics
• butt head
• chaotic design
• child proof
• Christian scientist
• civil war
• civilized divorce
• clearly misunderstood
• closet exhibitionist
• closet space
• computer jock
• computer security
• constant change
• constant variables
• constructive criticism
• controlled chaos
• counter trends
• criminal justice
• crowded room
• daily special
• decaf coffee
• definite maybe
• deliberate speed
• Dodge Ram
• down escalator
• elegant economy
• eloquent silence
• eternal life
• even odds
• exact estimate
• extensive briefing
• extinct life
• failsafe
• fair war (what the Taliban asked for)
• family vacation
• firewater
• first annual
• flat curve
• found missing

• freezer burn
• French military
• fresh frozen
• friendly fire
• friendly takeover
• full-time hobby
• fun run
• future plans
• general rule
• genuine imitation
• giant shrimp
• good grief
• good loser
• government organization
• happy marriage
• Holy war
• honest lawyer
• hot water heater
• ill health
• illegal immigrant
• important trivia
• industrial park
• inside-out
• intellectual fool
• intensely apathetic
• intimate strangers
• intolerant of intolerance
• Islamic reformist
• journalistic ethics
• jumbo shrimp
• know how
• larger half
• legally drunk
• little giant
• living dead
• long shorts
• loyal opposition
• manic depressive
• marital bliss
• Microsoft Works
• military intelligence
• minor milestone
• minor surgery
• moderate Muslim
• natural selection
• near miss
• never again
• new classic
• new improved
• new record
• new tradition
• night light
• Non-Toxic.  Made in China.
• now, then
• oddly normal
• official rumor
• old boy
• old news
• open secret
• original copy
• passive aggressive

• peace force
• perfect parent
• planned serendipity
• plastic glasses
• political science
• pretty sick
• pretty ugly
• puny grandeur
• random order
• randomly organized
• rap music
• real vinyl
• relative stranger
• reliable tabloid
• religious tolerance
• resident alien
• rock opera
• routine emergency
• rubber wood
• safe bet
• same difference
• sanitary landfill
• science fiction
• seductive innocence
• sensitive male
• serious humor
• shared secret
• silent scream
• small crowd
• soft rock
• software documentation
• somewhat addictive
• small businessman
• smaller half
• standard deviation
• stop-motion
• student teacher
• studied indifference
• subtly obvious
• sweet sorrow
• synthetic natural (gas)
• taped live
• terribly good
• tight slacks
• time management
• tolerant liberal
• toll free
• true church
• turned up missing
• unbiased opinion
• uncommonly typical
• unofficial record
• virtual reality
• whole filet
• whole half
• wicked good
• willing slave
• wireless cable
• working vacation
• 1:00 in the morning tonight

• Fun Run and Other Oxymorons ~ by Joe Bennett
• Pretty Ugly: More Oxymorons and Other Illogical Expressions That Make Absolute Sense ~ by Warren D. Blumenfeld
• Who Ordered the Jumbo Shrimp? ~ by Jon Agee

• added bonus
• advance warning
• closed fist
• duplicate copy
• end result
• exact replica

• foreign imports
• free gift
• join together
• lag behind
• past experience
• please RSVP

• prior history
• revert back
• sum total
• total abstinence
• true fact

• Anna
• a man a plan a canal Panama
• a Toyota
• bib
• Bob
• boob
• civic
• dad
• deed
• deified
• dud
• Eve
• ewe
• gag

• Hannah
• kayak
• level
• ma'am
• Madam, I'm Adam
• mom
• Nan
• Naomi, did I moan?
• noon
• nun
• Otto
• party trap
• pop
• poop

• race car
• radar
• refer
• repaper
• sis
• stats
• step on no pets
• sue us
• tat
• tenet
• tit
• tot
• toot

Submit Oxymoron

This website solicits no personal information from visitors other than voluntary e-mail. Therefore, no information is shared with any organizations or other websites. If information is received which requests additions to pages with e-mail links, it is done at the request of the sender.

American Experience is ©1999-2008 by Nikki Roth-Skiles. All rights reserved. Please feel free to link to the 
pages on this site. I accept no responsibility for the content of other websites or for services or products
purchased or used as a result of a link from these pages. This page was last updated
January 09, 2008.