zeugma
C2CEFR level
96/100Rarity: very rare
TechnicalRegister
A figure in which one word governs two others in different, often incongruous, senses.
"She lost her keys and her temper" is a neat comic zeugma.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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