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A new oxymoron

I think I invented an oxymoron: "Mandatory option." That sounds like a figure of speech combining two normally contradictory terms -- you know, like jumbo shrimp, cruel kindness or Bush administration intelligence. I think the 15-minute nap should be a "mandatory option" for every American worker, by federal law. Unless someone has evidence otherwise, I'm taking credit for coining the phrase.

Posted by Dan Rodricks at 9:22 AM | | Comments (1)
        

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Sadly, http://www.oxymorons.info/reference/oxymorons/forum.asp?oxyid=855 says you didn't think of it first.

But I never heard it before.

Posted by: jupiter | May 5, 2009 10:13 PM

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