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Do anagrams always need to be apt?
Not always. Occasionally, we come across unusual anagrams where the subject and anagram are unrelated (i.e. non-apt), but consist of two well-known names or phrases.
More than 100 interesting, but non-apt anagrams
Known phrase (or well known name) to known phrase anagrams with unrelated, but surprising results.
- Actual income = E-mail account.
- Adolescent crime = Domestic cleaner.
- A dream within a dream = What am I, a mind reader?
- A fashion model = He is a damn fool.
- A horned owl = An old whore.
- A sexual encounter = An extraneous clue.
- Antilog tables = A losing battle.
- Apostle Bird = Spoiled brat.
- Basmati rice = Semitic Arab.
- Bitch on heat = Nice hot bath.
- Blind date = Bland diet.
- Boulder Dam = Bread mould.
- Brainstem = Tribesman.
- Britney Spears = Presbyterians
- Brand names = Bad manners.
- Buck teeth = Butt cheek.
- Cab license = Science lab.
- Charge density = Yacht designer.
- Chemical agent = Climate change.
- Concert tickets = Cricket contest.
- Consenting adults = Design consultant.
- Contaminated = No Admittance.
- Convenience store = Viennese concerto.
- Costume ball = Custom label.
- Cote d'Ivoire = Erotic video.
- Crusades = Used cars.
- Cuban heels = Chelsea Bun.
- Diorama = AM radio.
- Double agents = Obtuse-angled.
- Drip treatment = Printed matter.
- Eastern bloc = Carbon steel.
- Earth tones = The senator.
- Eric Clapton = Narcoleptic.
- Ever so many = Money saver.
- Flat broke = Table fork.
- Fats Waller = Waterfalls.
- Female persons = No free samples.
- Fidel Castro = Tidal forces.
- Fine Arts = Fire ants.
- Fort Hood, Texas = Orthodox feast.
- Free trading = Great friend.
- Garden seat = Great Danes.
- Hand reared = Hard earned.
- Inderal = Ireland.
- In extremis = Ex-minister.
- Lasting peace = Eating places.
- Lasting peace = Gelatine caps.
- Law firm = War film.
- Leonardo da Vinci = Vindaloo and rice.
- Line astern = Real Tennis.
- Medieval city = Timely advice.
- Meg Ryan = Germany.
- Mother Nature = The numerator.
- Musical composer = Soup commercials.
- Nail clippers = Calliper pins.
- Naked babes = Baked beans.
- Nations = Onanist.
- Nicholas Gage = Social change.
- Nude dancer = Redundance.
- Numerology = You mongrel.
- On the march = The Monarch.
- Operatic style = Stereotypical.
- Pepsi-Cola = A popsicle.
- Platonic year = Action replay.
- Plane crash = Search plan.
- Planet Mars = Master plan.
- Play the lead = Deathly pale.
- Potential = Lipton Tea.
- Power cable = Pace bowler.
- Printer cable = Prince Albert.
- Rape allegations = Legal separation.
- Real meaning = Line manager.
- Red Rum = Murder.
- Reliance on = Ocean liner.
- Ross Perot = SS trooper.
- Rescued animal = A medical nurse.
- Search into = Chain store.
- Seat assignment = Instant message.
- Seed Corn Maggot = Second mortgage.
- Self evident = Field events.
- Silhouette = Hotel suite.
- Sinister motive = Soviet minister.
- Soda bottle = A blood test.
- Speed limit = Simple diet.
- Spotter plane = Rotten apples.
- Stage player = Pearly Gates.
- Stalwarts = Last straw.
- Strategic plan = Starting place.
- Supreme Court = Computer user.
- Tabloid press = Spoiled brats.
- Talkathons = Thanks a lot.
- The Rat Race = Art teacher.
- The Reader's Digest = Registered Deaths
- The Ukraine = Nature hike.
- Thunderstorm = Modern truths.
- Time traveler = Relative term.
- Train engineers = Entire earnings.
- Train spotting = Starting point.
- Treasure Island = Natural desires.
- U.S. President = Turnip seeds.
- Veganism = Ming Vase.
- War protest = Water sports.
- Word formation = Forward motion.
- Your other half = Our Holy Father.
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