Hence, anything tough, or hard.
ADORE From add, annex, and ore, meaning wealth. Example, foreign
nobles who marry American heiresses adore them.
ADVICE A commodity peddled by your lawyer and given away by your
mother-in-law, but impossible to dispose of yourself. Famous as
the one thing which it is "More blessed to give than receive."
GOOD ADVICE Something old men give young men when they can no
longer give them a bad example.
ADVERSITY A bottomless lake, surrounded by near-sighted friends.
AFFINITY Complimentary term for your husband or your wife.
Sometimes a synonym for "Your finish."
AFTERTHOUGHT A tardy sense of prudence that prompts one to try to
shut his mouth about the time he has put his foot in it.
AGE Something to brag about in your wine-cellar and forget in a
birth-day book. The boast of an old vintage, the bug a boo of an
old maid.
ALCOHOL A liquid good for preserving almost everything except
secrets.
ALDERMAN A political office known as the Crook's Road to Wealth.
From Eng. all, and Greek derma, meaning skin--"all skin."
ALIMONY An expensive soothing syrup, prescribed by the judge for a
divorcee's bleeding heart.
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