macho man

[Lynne Murphy]

--On Tuesday, February 12, 2002 12:16 pm -0600 "Yerkes, Susan"
<SYerkes at EXPRESS-NEWS.NET> wrote:

> Is there any word for a phrase that is effectively a homonym for an
> oxymoron, but is actually NOT one?
> (e.g. "mail woman?")

I think that's just called a pun!

Lynne


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