10 Wortspiele auf Englisch

Mit Erklärung

a pun : ein Wortspiel

Here are few funny examples:

(here erkläre ich die eine Bedeutung des Wortes/und hier die andere Bedeutung des Wortes.)

1. Light travels faster than sound. That's why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.

2. I was wondering why the ball was getting bigger. Then it hit me.

(hit me : ist mir eingefallen/hat mich getroffen)

3. I have a few jokes about unemployed people, but none of them work.

(work : funktionieren/arbeiten)

4. "I have a split personality," said Tom, being frank.

(to be frank : ein Männername/um ehrlich zu sein)

5. How do you make holy water? You boil the hell out of it.

(boil the hell out of it : eine Redewendung die bedeutet übertrieben betreiben. boil kann mit anderen Verben ersetzt werden)

6. Last night, I dreamed I was swimming in an ocean of orange soda. But it was just a Fanta sea.

7. I lost my job at the bank on my very first day. A woman asked me to check her balance, so I pushed her over.

(check her balance : Kontostand prüfen/Gleichgewicht prüfen)

8. What’s the difference between a hippo and a zippo? One is really heavy and the other is a little lighter.

(lighter : leichter/Feuerzeug)

9. All chemists know that alcohol is always a solution.

(solution: chemische Mischung/Lösung)

10. When everything is coming your way, you're in the wrong lane.

(and here at the end – “some food for thought”)

Do you have a fun pun to add?