Anagram: A Short List of Popular Anagrams and Its Definition

Anagram is the rearrangement (reordering) of the letters of a word, phrase or words (sentence) to make another word, phrase or a sentence. This new word, phrase or words formed from the rearrangement, contains all the letters of the original word or phrase or sentence but only in a different order. This means therefore they are both spelt with the same set of letters. Thus, anagram can be used to rearrange the letters of a word, phrase or sentence so as to discover a secret (hidden) message. This is used in a word game that involves the forming of anagrams. For example, “Butterfly” is an anagram of “Flutter-by”. An anagram that reads the same backward as forward is called palindrome, e.g., “Anna,” “Able was I ere I saw Elba” and “Draw, o coward”.

Anagrams have been around for a very long time, this goes way back in history. Anagram is said to have been originated in 260 B.C. by the Greek poet Lycophron who lived in Alexandria at the palace of King Ptolemy Philadelphus (285-247 B.C.) where he used them to flatter those who hold high social status, position and wealth. It is also mentioned by some historians to be invented without authority by the Jews. Hebrew writers (the Kabbalists) were, fond of its use and asserted that " secret mysteries are woven in the numbers of letters." The study of anagrams has been called the Great Art due to the fact that the word ANAGRAMS can be rearranged to produce the word ARS MAGNA, which is the Latin name for Great Art.

Here are few popular and very clever anagrams for you to enjoy. These anagrams show the amusing results of rearranging (transposing) the letters of a word, phrase or sentence to form another which are relevant and humorous to each other. There are lots more out there which can be placed in different subject categories but this will be a general anagram list. Needless to say also, there are anagrams that are vulgar in nature that goes cleverly with the original word, phrase or sentence. However, those will not be included here.

A	Rearrange Word
A Decimal Point	I'm a Dot in Place
A Domesticated Animal	Docile, as a Man Tamed it
A Gentleman	Elegant Man
A Rolling Stone Gathers No Moss	Stroller on Go, Amasses Nothing
Admirer	Married
Animosity	Is No Amity
Astronomer	Moon Starer
B
Bill Gates	gets a bill
Butterfly	Flutter-by
C
Clint Eastwood	Old West Action
Clothespins	So Let's Pinch
Circumstantial evidence	Can ruin a selected victim
Contradiction	Accord not in it
Conversation	Voices Rant On
D
David Letterman	Nerd Amid Late TV
Debit card	Bad Credit
Desperation	A Rope Ends It
Dormitory	Dirty Room
E
Election Promises	Come-ons, lies, tripe!
Election results	Lies! Let's recount
Eleven plus two	Twelve plus one
Elvis	Lives
F
Funeral	Real Fun
G
George Bush	He bugs Gore
H
Halloween	Awe Hell No
Heavy Rain?	Hire a Navy!
Howard Stern	Retard Shown
I
Indomitableness	Endless ambition
J
K
L
Listen	Silent
Laxative	Exit Lava
M
Magic tricks	grim sick act
Males never ask for directions	Keen crisis of men's road travel
Many a true word is spoken in jest	Men joke, and so win trusty praise
Margaret Thatcher	That Great Charmer
Martha Stewart	rawest math rat
Michael Jackson	He can mock jails
Michael Jordan	Major held icon
Mother-in-law	Woman Hitler
My Life Is Over	Vile Of Misery
N
Napster	Net Raps
New Years Eve	We Erase Envy
No Admittance	Contaminated
O
October Sky	Rocket Boys
One good turn deserves another	Do rogues endorse that? No, never!
Operating systems	Gates strips money
Osama Bin Laden	An Islam bad one
P
Payment Received	Every cent paid me
Precaution	I put on care
Prenatal	Parental
Presbyterian	Best In Prayer
President Saddam Hussein	Human disaster dispensed
Princess Diana	End Is A Car Spin
Protectionism	Nice to imports
Q
R
Rome was not built in a day	Any labor I do wants time
S
Saddam Hussein	UN's said he's mad
Schoolmaster	The classroom
Semolina	Is No Meal
Silicon Graphics	A Long Chip Crisis
Slot Machines	Cash Lost in 'em
Snooze Alarms	Alas! No More Z's
Statue of Liberty	Built to Stay Free
Stormy weather	Showery matter
Sunshine and Shadow	Show in Sun and Shade
T
The Answer	Wasn't Here
The Country Side	No City Dust Here
The Detectives	Detect Thieves
The Earthquakes	That Queer Shake
The Eyes	They See
The Hilton	Hint: Hotel
The Microsoft Corporation	Horror of Competition Acts
The Morse Code	Here Come Dots
The Public Art Galleries	Large Picture Halls, I Bet
The Railroad Train	Hi! I Rattle and Roar
The United States Bureau of Fisheries	I Raise the Bass to Feed Us in the Future
The United States of America	Attaineth its cause, freedom
Tired Nerves	Tense Driver
Truth Is	It Hurts
U
V
Vacation Times	I'm Not as Active
Valentine Poems	Pen mates in love
W
Western Union	No Wire Unsent
X
Y
Year two thousand	A year to shut down
Z

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