SMART DEFINITIONS

New Zealand Tablet, 17 September 1908, Page 38

SMART DEFINITIONS

f A smart, pithy, or humorous \ definition often furnishes a. happy illustration of the proverbial brevity which is the soul of wit. ' - - To hit off a jury as ' a body of men organised to* nnd out which side has the smartest lawyer,' is to satirize many of our 'intelligent fellow-c6untrymen. ' A boy once said that ' dust is mud with the mice squeezed out.' - J . ( A fan, we learn from another juvenile source, is a thing to brush warmth off with ' ; salt, ' what makes your potatoes taste bad when you don't put any on ' - w'ent'to' j Wat , er that Stayed out^ at c in the cold' and A schoolboy, asked to 'define the word ' sob ' whimpered out : <It means- when a feller don't want to cry and it bursts out itself.' A good definition of a ' Pharisee!' is ' a tradesman who uses Jong prayers arid short weights'; of a humbug, one who agrees with everybody ' ; and of a tyrant, the other version of somebody's hero.' Thin soup, according to an Irish mendicant is 'a quart of water boiled down .to a pint, to make it