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You're listening to Away with Words,

the show about language and how we use it.

I'm Grant Barrett.

And I'm Martha Barnett. I came across an intriguing type of word play the other day.

It involves unrelated pairs of words and phrases. Now each half of the

pair makes sense on its own, but what makes them a pair is that the words in one pair are synonyms of the words in the other.

Let me give you an example.

Take the term blanket statement.

Now that makes perfect sense, doesn't it? Right, blanket

statement this is something that kind of covers all options or situations. Ah interesting

that you mentioned the word cover because you compare the term blanket statement with cover story.

Oh, so although on the surface the words can be synonyms, the idiomatic expressions taken as a whole are not synonyms.

Exactly.

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