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If pro and con are opposites, is congress the opposite of progress ?
The existence of many opposites suggests that proverbs perhaps once came in pairs, to be swopped in a sort of verbal wrestling, one vying with another or sometimes combining with it, the idealistic and the skeptical in balance: The man without children has a hole in his heart; the man with children has a heart like a sieve; Your family may chew you, but they will not swallow you .
The two campus archetypes were considered to be such polar opposites that the word knurd emerged.
Cobuild and CED are far from being such polar opposites, but they exemplify this general point.
oxymoron Not a name for dumb cattle, but a rhetorical device that couples opposites into descriptions effective for their irony: cold as hell, honest as a politician.