Oxymorons

Favorite oxymorons

• Good morning!
• a little big
• pretty ugly
• standard deviation
• awfully good
• automatic temperature control (from my old washing machine)
• from Windows programming, the constant ERROR_SUCCESS
• bigger half
• from a local Chinese restaurant, Bean Curd Delight
• red-winged blackbird
• Triangle Square (shopping center in RTP, North Carolina)
• middle initial (or second initial, or last initial)
• Kansas City, Missouri
• Je ne parle pas français, No hablo español, Non parlo italiano, and so forth
• someone yelling, "be quiet!"
• bonus double oxymoron: senate intelligence committee (thanks to Mike B.)

Self-redundant phrases

• very last
• first initial
• tuna fish, tomato catsup, cheese quesadilla
• Could you repeat that again?
• hot-water heater
• PIN number, ATM machine
• on some California license plates: “Sesquicentennial—150 Years”
• Easter Sunday
• “We specialize in all cars, foreign and domestic” (thanks, Dan)
• close proximity

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