Unparalleled Misalignments

Some of these are very cool and fits their definition exactly. But some others are very forced. Who would think that “fashion” and “taylor” are synonyms? And they are both further synonyms of “fix”? Or in the “Cold Fusion // Cool Cat” pair how would “fusion” be a synonym of “cat”?

Some poet must have had a lot of fun with these slipping things past the censors. It'd be in the same league as the underhanded C contest - what is the most innocent short text that can be written while slipping in some subtle but likely rather dirty double meaning in.

That's a very loose definition of "synonyms" . Most are like "conceptually adjacent".

Hypothesis = Understatement makes sense, right?

This is great, had quite a few chuckles.

You could take it one step further and merge in Cockney Slang as an extra stage.

Hacker News / Tweaker Buzz?

I have to admit some of these took a moment to register.