The Silly Syclopedia

MP3 Audio CD. The Silly Syclopedia

A man can drop a lot of dough trying to pick up money.

A fool and his money are soon spotted.

An accommodation liar soon learns to run like an express.

A guilty conscience needs no accuser if you catch him at it.

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A: An adjective, commonly called the indefinite article because
the higher the fewer.


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A BAS. A French word meaning "S'cat!"

A SHARP. A musical term which cannot be explained here, because the
Musical Union might get sore.

A FLAT. A people coop. Seven rooms and a landlord, with hot and cold gas
and running servants. A flat is the poor relation of an apartment.

ABROAD. A place where people go to be cured of visiting foreign lands.

ABSCOND. To duck with the dough. From The Latin word absconditto,
meaning to grab the long-green and hike for the Bad Lands.

ABSINTHE. The national headache of the French. A jag-builder which is
mostly wormwood and bad dreams. A liquid substance which when applied to
a "holdover" revivifies it and enables its owner to sit up and notice
the bar-tender.

ABSTAIN. The stepladder which leads up to the water wagon.

ABSTEMIOUS. Having an aisle seat on the water wagon.

ACROBAT. A fellow of infinite chest.

ACCUMULATE. To collect or bring together. For example: "He borrowed two
dollars from his wife, whereupon he went out and accumulated a
bunch of boozerine." (Carlyle's Heroes and Hero Worship.)