A Filling Station is a railway passengers' access point which is slowly bulging at the seams with would-be travellers who are going nowhere because of the interminable train strikes.

STRIKE

The government was still describing it as a meteor strike as the little green men marched over Westminster Bridge.

BRIDGE

The dentist carried the dental appliance across the water, not because he was holier than thou and able to walk on water, but because there was a bridge over which he could carry his bridge to the client.


APPLIANCE

Desmond Molehusband never won a Teacher of the Year Award, but his colleagues held him in particular esteem for the range of gags he kept in his desk drawer - his appliance of silence.

ESTEEM

True story: A high school student in the Southwest USA told her teacher (my niece) that said teacher was responsible for the student's low self of steam, not realizing that self is the person him or her self and the esteem is only one word and has nothing to do with evaporating water.


EVAPORATE

It's hard to escape the conclusion that, the longer formal education lasts and the more seriously it's taken, the more common sense and the ability to absorb information evaporates.

CONCLUSIVE