A man was driving down the road with twenty penguins in the back seat.
The police stop him and say that he can’t drive around with the penguins in the car and should take them to the zoo.
The man agrees and drives off.
The next day the same man is driving down the road with twenty penguins in the back and again he is stopped by the same police officer who says, "Hey! I thought I told you to take those to the zoo."
The man replies, "I did. Today I’m taking them to the movies."
- succession; series. [latin: related to *progress]
PROGRESSIVE
—adj. - moving forward.
- proceeding step by step; cumulative (progressive drug use).
- a favouring rapid political or social reform. B modern; efficient (a progressive company).
- (of disease, violence, etc.) Increasing in severity or extent.
- (of taxation) increasing with the sum taxed.
- (of a card-game, dance, etc.) With periodic changes of partners.
- gram. (of a tense) expressing action in progress, e.g. Am writing, was writing. —n. (also progressive) advocate of progressive political policies. progressively adv. [french or medieval latin: related to *progress]
PROHIBITION
n. - forbidding or being forbidden.
- edict or order that forbids.
- (usu. Prohibition) legal ban on the manufacture and sale of alcohol, esp. In the us (1920–33). prohibitionist n. (in sense 3).
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