"`Mr. Pickwick took his hat and his leave' is an example of zeugma. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
This is usually called a zeugma; it's a purely structural way of using prepositions in an odd way, for effect e.g., humor. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2005-09-01] Reference
Apparently this type of "zeugma" (yes, there are many types) is called "syllepsis.". From Wordnik.com. [Rex Parker Does the NYT Crossword Puzzle] Reference
He calls her by a kind of zeugma "your daughter," though she is but Jacob's daughter; however, all have the disposal of her in hand. From Wordnik.com. [Exposition of Genesis: Volume 1] Reference
The people speak of their land as dying by a kind of zeugma, for the land deteriorates if it be not worked, and here their plea is for seed. From Wordnik.com. [Exposition of Genesis: Volume 1] Reference
I should note that the word "zeugma" appears in Westlaw's Allcases database 20 times -- all of them either in the name zeugma Corp. or the title of Libert H. Boeynaems. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy] Reference
2D: Have a break at 4: 00, say (take tea) - when I first learned what "zeugma" was, this was the example. From Wordnik.com. [Rex Parker Does the NYT Crossword Puzzle] Reference
Will zeugma help my verse or just itself to couplets?. From Wordnik.com. [April 15th, 2002] Reference
About a year ago, dhawhee wrote a post on her favorite trope in her case, zeugma. From Wordnik.com. [Ferule & Fescue] Reference
All the renderings are unsatisfactory, the one given in our translation involving a zeugma. From Wordnik.com. [Beowulf An Anglo-Saxon Epic Poem] Reference
Everyone keeps e-mailing me descriptions of their parental visits over the last few days, but none have provided these in the form of a clever zeugma. From Wordnik.com. [A list of items found in my purse, all in some way related to the fact that my parents are in town:] Reference
Fitting the same space in our brain as Found Art and Overheard in New York, spend a few moments with Aubrey at Hartford 3C and you might even learn what a zeugma is. From Wordnik.com. [lulu lumens] Reference
Grant and Peter both suggest the “zeugma,” which is really too complicated to explain, while David envisages “a groovy Latin number about the Spanish question mark.”. From Wordnik.com. [Michael Hogan: Vampire Weekend’s “Oxford Comma,” Explained: Michael Hogan] Reference
I love saying the word "zeugma"!. From Wordnik.com. [Too Cruel?] Reference
Update Turkish thanks to Ufuk Yıldırım and zeugma. From Wordnik.com. [The Portable Freeware Collection]
"` Mr. Pickwick took his hat and his leave 'is an example of zeugma". From Wordnik.com. [Visual Thesaurus : Online Edition] Reference
I'm giving a talk Monday where the topic of zeugma avoidance is going to come up. From Wordnik.com. [British Blogs] Reference
My take is that, re zeugma v. syllepsis, the situation is much like metonymy v. synecdoche. From Wordnik.com. [Rex Parker Does the NYT Crossword Puzzle] Reference
'There is a long list of poetic and rhetorical tropes with odd names, from anaphora to zeugma. From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XII No 1] Reference
© 2002 by the Archaeological Institute of America www. archaeology.org/0209/reviews/zeugma. html. From Wordnik.com. [Multimedia: Zeugma Revisited] Reference
This is some weird kind of, uhm, zeugma, and not simply b / c we have here three poets plus one novelist. From Wordnik.com. [PoetryFoundation.org] Reference
Brachylogy -- a term covering a variety of condensation tropes, such as ellipsis and zeugma -- is not dead. From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XII No 1] Reference
I guess it's technically syllepsis, and the grammaticians will be mad at me later, but I like saying zeugma. From Wordnik.com. [Rex Parker Does the NYT Crossword Puzzle] Reference
If they don't want to deal in commodities, they need to get in another line of business. zeugma (zeugma loves a good W00t Off!). From Wordnik.com. [Latest Articles] Reference
Etymology: Latin zeugmat -, zeugma, from Greek, literally, juncture, joining, from zeugnynai an important or influential (and often overbearing) person. From Wordnik.com. [Visual Thesaurus : Online Edition] Reference
This may also be explained by the figure zeugma, where one verb takes two objects, the second of which ought more properly to be joined to a second verb. From Wordnik.com. [Exposition of Genesis: Volume 1] Reference
Sunday, Apr. 27, 2008 - zeugma. From Wordnik.com. [Archives] Reference
My favorite figurative trope is zeugma. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-02-01] Reference
Using the zeugma "dust to dust," from the Book of. From Wordnik.com. [Hegel on Buddhism] Reference
A classicist, or a well-schooled poet, one enters an arcane world where zeugma is king, or possibly I mean syllepsis. From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XII No 1] Reference
And zeugma!. From Wordnik.com. [Too Cruel?] Reference
To: zeugma. From Wordnik.com. [Latest Articles] Reference
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