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Bevan Price

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Deride - Fall off horse or bike.
Delight - Turn off the lights.
Depend ( also, Deepen) - Lost my pens.
Define - Court penalty for fare dodgers.
Detain - Exit Tain from Tain station.
Delay - Get off wife or girlfriend's rude bits.
Dismiss - Disrespect female school teacher.
 

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Deride - Fall off horse or bike.
Delight - Turn off the lights.
Depend ( also, Deepen) - Lost my pens.
Define - Court penalty for fare dodgers.
Detain - Exit Tain from Tain station.
Delay - Get off wife or girlfriend's rude bits.
Dismiss - Disrespect female school teacher.
Defibrillation - Telling your uncle that you knew he was lying.
Detract - What happened to branch lines after the Beeching Report.
Deflect - Wiping your friends chin after you’ve spat at him during a conversation.
 

Bevan Price

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Demand - Reduced staffing levels.
Detailed - Manx Cat.
Converse - Criminal poetry.
Inverse - Poems about pubs.
Perverse - Poems about cats (which purr).
 

Bevan Price

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Some plant-related defintions:

Foxglove - Woollen cover for fox's legs.
Dogwood - Contains lots of places for dogs to urinate.
Hogweed - Pigs urinated here.
Catmint - Cat-flavoured sweets.
Crocus - Curse those crows
 

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Like one of these? link, link

If you want a link to the cussing and swearing, well I'm sorry: this is a family friendly forum! ;)
That’s true. One too many glasses of wine for me last night...
Bookkeeping - what the library fines you for.
 

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Money laundering - cleaning for example a £10 note you leave in your trouser pocket before putting them into a washing machine at the launderette
 

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Cross-over vehicles - cars you can drive just as easily in France and Spain as in the UK.
Tautology - a teacher's diary.
Curate - prescription charge.
 
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surplice - choir gown made of left-over material.
Canterbury Cap - the most you should expect to pay for a day's bus-riding in Kent.
An Ordinary Bishop - is indistinguishable from anyone on the street.
 

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