Posted by Eugene Volokh: Blegging for Zeugmas: http://volokh.com/archives/archive_2008_11_02-2008_11_08.shtml#1226182665
I'm giving a talk Monday where the topic of [1]zeugma avoidance is going to come up. I'd like to give a familiar quote -- preferably from a famous song, play, novel, or movie -- that contains a [2]zeugma, which is to say "The use of a word to modify or govern two or more words when it is ... appropriate to each but in a different way, as in to wage war and peace or On his fishing trip, he caught three trout and a cold." As you might gather from my question, custom-made examples such as the ones in this quote don't satisfy me; I want something that's already relatively well-known. The only such example I could find in a quick Google search was "You held your breath and the door for me" from Alanis Morissette's Head Over Feet, but I'm looking for something even better known (or at least even cooler). So if you could pass some along, I'd be much obliged. Thanks! References 1. http://volokh.com/archives/archive_2008_11_02-2008_11_08.shtml#1226090374 2. http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/zeugma _______________________________________________ Volokh mailing list [email protected] http://lists.powerblogs.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/volokh
