A humorous literary device, similar to satire; paraprosdokian describes figures of speech in which the latter part of a sentence or phrase is surprisingly unexpected, and causes the reader or listener to reframe or reinterpret the first part. Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect. (Steven Wright)
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