reply, up her mind, and a dash for the door." (Flanders and Swann, "Have Some Madeira M'Dear") "They covered themselves with dust and glory." (Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer). "He watches afternoon repeats and the food he eats." (Blur, "Country House") "You held your breath and the door for me." (Alanis Morissette, "Head Over Feet") "I took the podium and my second trophy of the evening." (Samuel R. Delany, "Racism and Science Fiction") ”My blood sugar fell dramatically and so did I.”(Elaine Stritch, “Elaine Stritch at Liberty”) "" ["On their flippant way through Italy, the French carelessly picked up Genoa, Naples and syphilis."] (Voltaire) When the meaning of a verb varies for the nouns following it, there is a standard order for the nouns: the noun first takes the most prototypical or literal meaning of the verb and is followed by the noun or nouns taking the less prototypical or more figurative verb meanings. "The boy swallowed milk and kisses," as contrasted with "The boy swallowed kisses and milk". The opposite process, in which the first noun expresses a figurative meaning and the second a more literal meaning, tends to create a comic effect: "and she feeds me love and tenderness and macaroons." (The Stampeders, "Sweet City Woman") Type 3 The Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms offers a much broader definition for zeugma by defining it as any case of parallelism and ellipsis working together so that a single word governs two or more other parts of a sentence. (Cicero, , VI.15) "Lust conquered shame; audacity, fear; madness, reason." The more usual way of phrasing this would be "Lust conquered shame, audacity conquered fear, and madness conquered reason." The sentence consists of three parallel clauses, called parallel because each has the same word order: verb, object, subject in the original Latin; subject, verb, object in the English translation. The verb "conquered" is a common element in each clause. The zeugma is created in both the original and the translation by removing the second and third instances of "conquered". Removing words that still can be understood by the context of the remaining words is ellipsis. Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend. (Francis Bacon). The more usual way of phrasing this would be "Histories make men wise, make poets witty, make mathematics subtle, make natural philosophy