I've always been interested in figures of speech - you know, metaphors, alliteration and all that - so I was mightily amused when I came across the Tom Swifty.
The Tom Swifty is named after the space adventure books featuring Tom Swift by Victor Appleton II, like the one shown:
The Tom Swifty seems to me to pay homage to the dering-do of these books and at the same time parodying them.
An example would be: "We just struck oil!" Tom gushed, the oil and gushed making the pun work. Another I like is "We must hurry" said Tom swiftly! ha ha. This even puns on his surname!
There are loads more on Wiki. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Swifty
Can you make up a Tom Swifty or two readers?
