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date: 18 March 2025

Zeugma. 

Source:
Garner's Modern English Usage
Author(s):

Bryan Garner

This figure of speech, literally a “yoking together,” involves a word's being a part of two constructions. Sometimes it results in a grammatical error, but sometimes it's simply a felicitous way of phrasing an idea. For example, sometimes a verb or preposition is applied to two other words in different senses, often figuratively in one sense and literally in the other, as in ... ...

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