Literally Speaking

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Sitting Pretty

Sitting pretty is an informal expression meaning “in a beneficial or gainful position” or “successful.” But it might just mean “a person that sits” who is “attractive or pleasing to the eye.” (Were I to say “easy on the eyes,” we’d get into that homophonic ambiguity again!) Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Or the “I” of the beholder, which means it is pretty much all about me!

Definitions of “sitting pretty,” “sitting” and “pretty” are author’s own

You will find this on the cover page of “Literally Speaking Too”—Did you get it?


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Literally Speaking and Literally Speaking Too are books which consist of a total of 200 artistic depictions of clichés (expressions we’ve used so much that we take the meaning for granted), idioms (vernacular particular to a geographical region), plays on homophones (using identically-sounding words for their alternate meanings), and/or use of terms ironically (to express something other than the literal meaning).

The website address is at least a quadruple pun (GetLiterallySpeaking.org): you get it (gain control of the book by picking it up), you get it (you understand it!), you get it (you buy it) and you get literally speaking (as in, you start doing it!). The website is designed for an ongoing exploration of language and a really good time.

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