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chewing gum

chewing gum – what your beloved pet dog is doing when it is destroying your dentures.

a college (esp. for hippopotamuses) which specialises in the study of the workings of human short-term memory.

a person who hoards the money he or she makes from selling a lot of fish. (origin – sell fish)

the period after winter when farm machinery are said to “spring“ back to life.

The misspelling of ‘the reader’.

What economists think is possible but environmentalists know is not.

The distant relative of 1980s pop sensation Chaka Khan.

What bloggers do when they blog poorly – they post modernism.

The main hinderance to the wellbeing of the people of other nations.

The electronic device on the back of modern cars that warn you before you reverse into an endangered tree.