Help with puns for english class!???

We are learning about puns in english class and they are confusing!! A pun compacts two or more ideas within a single word or expression. Here are a few examples of puns so you can get the idea





1.) In a shoe store : Come in and have a fit.


2.) In a dentist's office : Always be true to your teeth or one day they will be floss to you.


3.) What's black and white and red allover? a newspaper


4.) naked grizzly : bare bear





Okay, so here are the ones I need help with!!


Midgets travel around the country on the short _______ .


Shoplifters are cursed with the gift of _______ .


Alimony is the high cost of ________ .


The vampire's favorite part of the highway : The main _______.


ostracized poet : ____ _____


female sheep utilize : _____ ____


young coal digger: _____ _____


correct ceremony : _____ ____


unadorned airliner : ____ ____





Thanks! Please no rude answers like "do it yourself" or whatever because I already tried to do it and it's really hard!! Thanks to those people who answer nicely! =)

Help with puns for english class!???
1.


2. grab


3. leaving


4. arteries


5. barred bard


6. ewes use


7. minor miner


8. right rite


9. plain plane
Reply:Shoplifters are cursed with the gift of GRAB.


That's the only one I can figure out. I'll keep trying.
Reply:1. Legs





And, for extra credit:


I had a wooden whistle, but it wooden whistle.


So, I bought a steel whistle, but steel it wooden whistle.


So, I bought a lead whistle, but steel, they wooden led me whistle.


So, I bought a tin whistle.


Now, I tin whistle!


(But give the "Best Answer to the first answer)
Reply:When you find out the answer to that first one, let us know! I have never heard of such an expression; and I have heard a lot of expressions in my fifty-odd years.
Reply:maybe #1 is the short-line railroad. you like in monopoly. i think thats wut that railroad is called =]
Reply:here's what I came up with:





female sheep utilize : ewes use


unadorned airliner : plain plane


young coal digger: minor miner


The vampire's favorite part of the highway : The main vein


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Reply:yes Rita got it in1- "on the short legs"





Otherwise Well Pun Team!
Reply:Midgets--short line


Vampire-main artery


female sheep-ewe used


unadorned airliner-plain plane





I think the Dentists office should be :Always be true to your teeth or one day they will be false to you.



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