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• This does not necessarily imply that he intended "metaphysical" to be used in its true sense, in that he was probably referring to a witticism of John Dryden, who said of John Donne:.
• Hely-Hutchinson was, however, an inveterate place-hunter, and there was a point in Lord North's witticism that if you were to give him the whole of Great Britain and Ireland for an estate, he would ask the Isle of Man for a potato garden.
• I am reminded of Congreve's witticism that bad portraitists are obliged to write the name of their sitters at the bottom.
• "A language is a dialect with an army and navy", sometimes called the Weinreich witticism, is a quip about the arbitrariness of the distinction between a dialect and a language.
• The actors had a list of possible scenarios, each with a very basic plot, called a canovaccio, and throughout would perform physical-comedy acts known as lazzi (from Italian lazzo, a joke or witticism) and the dialogue was improvised.
• Chinese has five words translatable as "idiom": chengyu (/ "set phrase; idiom"), yanyu (/; "proverb; popular saying, maxim; idiom"), xiehouyu (/; "truncated witticism, aposiopesis; enigmatic folk simile"), xiyu (/; "idiom"), and guanyongyu (/; "fixed expression; idiom; locution").
• He knows the difference between genuine witticism and crude slapstick that passes for 'comedy' in so many recent movies" and describes the film as "a deft, clever crowd-pleaser that is also a genuinely lovely motion picture, the kind of Korean cinema undeservingly ignored in the foreign market, and another winner from the redoubtable Kim Hyun-seok.
• Sillier than a lip-synching mouse, sillier than any droll witticism or stomping on a previously enormous delusion creature or any of it.

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