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For example, “I left my heart—and my suitcase—in San Francisco.” Zeugma occurs in William Shakespeare's “Fear No More the Heat o' the Sun”: “Golden Lads, and Girles all must / As chimney-sweepers come to dust.” Here, “coming to dust” refers to the chimney-sweeper's trade as well as the body's decay.

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