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Can you name the words or phrases which sound like something other than what they mean?

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It sounds like...	Word or Phrase	But it's really...
A canine's canine		A fabric pattern
Lunar light		Illegal spirits
Someone who sells chess pieces		Someone who makes short terms loans with miscellaneous collateral
Something that produces dried grass		A kind of punch
A portion of fish		An jockstrap from the Middle Ages or Renaissance
An ocular ulcer		Something ugly
Someone who Bambi has a restraining order against		A kind of hat Sherlock Holmes often wears
An amphibian's seat		A mushroom
Mollusk excavators		A kind of pants
Making dinner out of literature		Accounting fraud
A crimson fish		A false clue
A Caucasian from the Caucuses		A cocktail
The Great Wall of China		The mechanism for separating people and information in a company to prevent insider trading
A casing for an explosive		A sex symbol
Sugary baked goods		Endocrine organs
Somewhere cattle are kept		Part of a baseball stadium
A place where birds get drunk		A prying tool
Something that would open the doors to St. Peters		A bottle opener
A vulpine dwelling		A defensive fighting position
Part of a fish skeleton		A stitching patern

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