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Some Pleonasms Listed
- It's deja vu all over again. -Attributed to Yogi Berra
The term, deja vu, means "a feeling of having experienced something before although in fact it is the first time that it has been experienced".
- "Smoking can kill you, and if you've been killed, you've lost a very important part of your life." -Attributed to actress, Brooke Shields
- Lead-lined coffins called a health risk.
- Census says rich have most of the money. (news item)
- Cliches are a dime a dozen. . . avoid them like the plague.
- Cure suggestibility with hypnosis.
- I've told you a million times, "Don't exaggerate!"
- Is that a mirage or am I seeing things?
- It's bad luck to be superstitious.
- I used to be an agnostic, but now I'm not so sure.
- Sometimes you can observe a lot just by watching. -Attributed to Yogi Berra
- Half the lies our opponents tell about us are not true.
- Football is an incredible game. Sometimes it's so incredible, it's unbelievable. -Tom Landry
- When large numbers of men are unable to find work, unemployment results. -Calvin Coolidge
- Anyone who goes to a psychiatrist ought to have his head examined. -Samuel Goldwyn
- I never make predictions, especially about the future. -Attributed to Samuel Goldwyn
- "In the city today, the temperature rose to 105 degrees. This sudden rise of temperature was responsible for the intolerable heat."
- "Trapped, like a trap in a trap." -Dorothy Parker
- I used to be indecisive, now I'm not sure.
- He lived his life to the end.
- Some people are superficial but that's just on the surface.
- The world is apathetic but I don't care.
- Always avoid alliteration.
- Treachery will often bring loyalty into question.
- Perspective is in the eye of the beholder.
- "If we do not succeed, we run the risk of failure." -Attributed to former Vice-President Dan Quayle
- Seen somewhere in the U.S.: "Fish and chips with French fries."
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Pleonasms or Tautological Redundancies
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