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Originally Posted by ReggieDurango
Irony:
"an outcome of events contrary to what was, or might have been, expected."
It's not expected to survive throat cancer, it is expected to survive gfy. The opposite of both happened to Paul.
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No, not quite, here's some examples to try and help you understand
Example: A man who is a traffic cop gets his license suspended for unpaid parking tickets.
Example: An ambulance driver goes to a nightime bike accident scene and runs over the accident victim because the victim has crawled to the center of the road with their bike.
"It is a fitting irony that under Richard Nixon, launder became a dirty word."
(William Zinsser)
"I'm aware of the irony of appearing on TV in order to decry it."
(Sideshow Bob, The Simpsons)
An old man turned ninety-eight. He won the lottery and died the next day... of chronic emphysema from inhalation of the latex particles scratched off decades' worth of lottery tickets.
HTH