tarshish

is the escape we all head for when we are summoned to Nineveh.

Recast in definition form from: “… to Tarshish when the call is to go to Nineveh. …”

ship

flight

Jonah

prophecy

escape

Bible

arcadia

Area 51

asakusa

auschwitz

baltimore

Banzai Pipeline

base camp

bathroom stall

blood bank

blue state

Cabaret Voltaire

california

cancun

canyon

Capitol Hill

cemetery

checkout counter

Columbine High School

combat zone

coral reef

corner

country town

countryside

crime scene

cyberspace

Dam Square

death zone

address

airport

apartment

arena

beach

bridge

building

cave

center

church

city

cliff

coffee shop

country

county

court

desert

acronyms

anagram

antonym

Back in My Day

binomial

blonde joke

bumper sticker

Chuck Norris

cockney rhyming slang

collective noun

comeback

confucius say

cool comparisons

curse

death mask

Deep Thoughts

etymology

false attribution

famous last word

glossary

greeting

haiku

home remedy

I like my [x] like I like my [y]

idiom

let's make like a  . . .

life hack

light bulb joke

limerick

mixed metaphor

mnemonic device

murphy's law

my wife left me

nonsense question

ology (the study of)

optical illusion

oxymoron

palindrome

phobia

pickup line

psychological phenomena and effects

reimagining the x

riddle

seen here

slang

someone should invent

stupid law

superlative

superstition

symbolism

there's a word for that

things that look like other things

Thomasson hyperart

toast (speech)

Tom Swifty

tongue twister

trolley problem

untranslatable word

wacky wares

weather lore

WTF origins

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