Lexophile phoolishness

•  A chicken crossing the road: poultry in motion.
•  A thief who stole a calendar got 12 months.
  
• Santa’s helpers are subordinate clauses.
  
•  A backward poet writes inverse.
• In a democracy it's your vote that counts; in feudalism, it's your Count that votes.
  
• When she saw her first strands of gray hair, she thought she’d dye.
• A lot of money is tainted: ‘Taint yours, and ‘taint mine.
• A bicycle can't stand alone; it is two tired.
• A will is a dead giveaway
• A short fortune teller escaped from prison.
  He was a small medium at large.