Palindromic Phrases (English)

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This article lists examples of palindromic phrases and longer constructions in English. For single-word palindromes see Palindromic words. For phrases in other languages, see Palindromic phrases

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[edit] Palindromic sentences

  • A dog, a panic in a pagoda
    • A dog, a panic in a Patna pagoda! (J A Lindon=jal)
  • Ah, Satan sees Natasha.
  • Allude my wedded dewy medulla. (Michael Helsem=mrh)
  • A man, a plan, a canal - Panama! (Leigh Mercer)
    • A dog, a plan, a canal, pagoda.
    • A man, a plan, a cat, a canal: Panama?
    • A man, a plan, a cat, a ham, a yak, a yam, a hat, a canal: Panama!
    • A homo sapien, a scheme, a waterway: Yawretawaemehcsaneipasomoha. (Runyon Reds, on a failed competitor to the Panama Canal)
    • A man, a plan, a canoe, pasta, heros, rajahs, a coloratura, maps, snipe, percale, macaroni, a gag, a banana bag, a tan, a tag, a banana bag again, or: a camel, a crepe, pins, spam, a rut, a Rolo, cash, a jar, sore hats, a peon, a canal -- Panama! (attributed to Guy Steele)
    • A man, a plan, a caret, a ban, a myriad, a sum, a lac, a liar, a hoop, a pint, a catalpa, a gas, an oil, a bird, a yell, a vat, a caw, a pax, a wag, a tax, a nay, a ram, a cap, a yam, a gay, a tsar, a wall, a car, a luger, a ward, a bin, a woman, a vassal, a wolf, a tuna, a nit, a pall, a fret, a watt, a bay, a daub, a tan, a cab, a datum, a gall, a hat, a fag, a zap, a say, a jaw, a lay, a wet, a gallop, a tug, a trot, a trap, a tram, a torr, a caper, a top, a tonk, a toll, a ball, a fair, a sax, a minim, a tenor, a bass, a passer, a capital, a rut, an amen, a ted, a cabal, a tang, a sun, an ass, a maw, a sag, a jam, a dam, a sub, a salt, an axon, a sail, an ad, a wadi, a radian, a room, a rood, a rip, a tad, a pariah, a revel, a reel, a reed, a pool, a plug, a pin, a peek, a parabola, a dog, a pat, a cud, a nu, a fan, a pal, a rum, a nod, an eta, a lag, an eel, a batik, a mug, a mot, a nap, a maxim, a mood, a leek, a grub, a gob, a gel, a drab, a citadel, a total, a cedar, a tap, a gag, a rat, a manor, a bar, a gal, a cola, a pap, a yaw, a tab, a raj, a gab, a nag, a pagan, a bag, a jar, a bat, a way, a papa, a local, a gar, a baron, a mat, a rag, a gap, a tar, a decal, a tot, a led, a tic, a bard, a leg, a bog, a burg, a keel, a doom, a mix, a map, an atom, a gum, a kit, a baleen, a gala, a ten, a don, a mural, a pan, a faun, a ducat, a pagoda, a lob, a rap, a keep, a nip, a gulp, a loop, a deer, a leer, a lever, a hair, a pad, a tapir, a door, a moor, an aid, a raid, a wad, an alias, an ox, an atlas, a bus, a madam, a jag, a saw, a mass, an anus, a gnat, a lab, a cadet, an em, a natural, a tip, a caress, a pass, a baronet, a minimax, a sari, a fall, a ballot, a knot, a pot, a rep, a carrot, a mart, a part, a tort, a gut, a poll, a gateway, a law, a jay, a sap, a zag, a fat, a hall, a gamut, a dab, a can, a tabu, a day, a batt, a waterfall, a patina, a nut, a flow, a lass, a van, a mow, a nib, a draw, a regular, a call, a war, a stay, a gam, a yap, a cam, a ray, an ax, a tag, a wax, a paw, a cat, a valley, a drib, a lion, a saga, a plat, a catnip, a pooh, a rail, a calamus, a dairyman, a bater, a canal - Panama! (Developed in 1984 by Dan Hoey with computer assistance).
  • A neb revels in Aegean isle verbena. (mrh)
  • A Toyota's a Toyota.
  • A Mesa-El Paso Mimosa please, ma. (Steve McAllister)
  • Able was I, ere I saw Elba. (the famous Napoleon's Lament, source unknown)
    • Sore was I ere I saw Eros.
  • Adam ran an armada.
  • Are we not drawn onward, we few, drawn onward to new era? (Bill Bryson)
    • Are we not drawn onwards, we Jews, drawn onward to new era?
  • A Santa stops spots at NASA
  • Ate flab in nacho? Oh! Cannibal Feta!
  • A Toyota; race fast, safe car; a Toyota.
  • A Toyota slut racecar; Tulsa Toyota.
  • Cain: A maniac!
  • Campus motto: Bottoms up, Mac!
  • Cigar? Toss it in a can. It is so tragic.
  • Delia sailed as sad Elias ailed.
  • Deliver files mad as a damsel, if reviled.
  • Denim axes examined
  • Dennis and Edna sinned.
    • Dennis, Nell, Edna, Leon, Nedra, Anita, Rolf, Nora, Alice, Carol, Leo, Jane, Reed, Dena, Dale, Basil, Rae, Penny, Lana, Dave, Denny, Lena, Ida, Bernadette, Ben, Ray, Lila, Nina, Jo, Ira, Mara, Sara, Mario, Jan, Ina, Lily, Arne, Bette, Dan, Reba, Diane, Lynn, Ed, Eva, Dana, Lynne, Pearl, Isabel, Ada, Ned, Dee, Rena, Joel, Lora, Cecil, Aaron, Flora, Tina, Arden, Noel, and Ellen sinned!
  • Desserts I desire not, so long no lost one rise distressed.
  • Did I do, O God, did I as I said I'd do? Good, I did.
  • DNA-lyre, I felt senses nestle fiery land. (mrh)
  • Do geese see God?
  • Doc, note, I dissent. A fast never prevents a fatness. I diet on cod. (Peter Hilton)
  • Dog sees Ada... - 306 words (Gordon Dow)
  • Dog deifiers reified God. (Edward Fitzpatrick)
  • Dog sex at noon taxes God.
    • Sex at noon taxes.
  • Done by AM? I may be. <nod>
  • Done now, as I saw one nod.
  • "Do nine men interpret?" "Nine men", I nod.
  • Draw a ward
  • Drawer reward
  • Draw pupil's lip upward.
  • Draw? No, onward!
  • Draw, O Caesar, erase a coward.
  • Draw, o coward!
  • Egad, a base tone denotes a bad age.
  • Egad, alas! A salad age!
  • Elapse day, Hyades pale. (mrh)
  • Elapsed odes pale. (mrh)
  • Elba anemone, H.P. stressed, a-sits; 'tis a desserts phenomena able! (another reference to Napoleon's apocryphal quote, though anemone, being poisonous, are not edible)
  • Eros? Sidney, my end is sore.
  • Eva, can I stab bats in a cave?
    • Eva, can I harp on Oprah in a cave?
  • Evil I did dwell; lewd did I live.
  • Evil satan oscillate my metallic sonatas live!
  • Feeble Tom's motel beef.
  • Feeler I was no fo(e), of on(e) saw I releef. (oldest p. in English, ca. 1600)
  • Flee to me, remote elf.
  • Flower ewer, a wan unaware werewolf. (mrh)
  • Fresh Caesar ever as each serf. (mrh)
  • Gate man sees name, garage man sees name tag.
  • Go hang a salami. I'm a lasagna hog. (Baby Gramps)
  • God! A red nugget, a fat egg under a dog.
  • Gödel—A math’s ash: tamale dog. (Daniel Gerling)
  • Goldenrod-adorned log. (Edward Fitzpatrick)
  • Golf? No, sir, prefer prison-flog.
  • HANNAH: Apple ho, help! PA: Hannah?
  • Harris' nemesis i' semen, sirrah.
  • He lived as a devil, eh?
  • He's mad no poll agreed deer gallop on dams, eh? (Ian Shadford)
  • I garble Babel, Bragi. (mrh)
  • I prefer pi.
  • I, madam, I made radio! So I dared! Am I mad? Am I? - Spider Robinson
  • I, man, am regal: a German am I.
  • If I had a hi-fi...
  • In a regal age ran I.
  • I saw I was I. (title of 2002 Austrian short film)
  • Kay, a red nude, peeped under a yak.
  • Lager, Sir, is regal.
  • L. A. cigar—too tragical (from Expiration Date by Tim Powers)
  • Lepers' boobs repel.
  • Lewd did I live, & evil I did dwel. (John Taylor, the Water Poet)
  • Lisa Bonet ate no basil.
  • Live Evil (used as an album title by, amongst others, the metal band Black Sabbath and jazz trumpeter Miles Davis)
  • Live dirt up a sidetrack carted is a putrid evil.
  • Lived as a devil.
  • Ma is a nun, as I am.
  • Ma is as selfless as I am.
  • Mad Amadeus sued a madam. (title of book about palindromes)
  • Madam, I'm Adam. (Eve's response, "Eve"; Eve's answer in Spanish is in palindromic phrases.)
    • Madam in Eden, I'm Adam.
  • Mail? I've stole lots. Evil, I am.
  • Marge lets Norah see Sharon's telegram.
  • Marge, let dam dogs in. Am on satire. Vow I am Cain. Am on spot, am a Jap sniper. Red, raw murder on G.I.! Ignore drum. (Warder repins pajama tops.) No maniac, Ma! Iwo veritas: no man is God. -Mad Telegram. (Roger Angell, according to Brendan Gill)
  • May a moody baby doom a yam?
  • Mirth sift now, won’t fish trim?
  • Mirth, sir, a gay asset? No, don’t essay a garish trim.
  • Mom slaps pal’s mom. (possible newspaper headline)
  • Mr. Owl ate my metal worm.
  • Must sell at tallest sum.
  • Name no one man.
  • Name no one man's sensuousness. Name no one man.
  • Named undenominationally rebel, I rile Beryl? La, no! I tan. I'm, O Ned, nude, man! (Cited by Martin Gardner)
  • "Naomi", I moan.
  • Ned, go gag Ogden.
  • Neil A. sees Alien.
  • Never a foot too far, even.
  • Never odd or even.
  • Nidor of sagas for Odin. (mrh)
  • Night-omega, minimum in image: moth gin. (mrh)
  • No "X" in Nixon.
  • No devil lived on.
  • No evil I did, I live on.(by Joseph MacLean)
  • No garden if a fine dragon. (mrh)
  • No lava on Avalon, no lava, no Avalon.
  • No lemons, no melon.
    • No melons, no lemon.
  • No Mel Gibson is a casino's big lemon.
  • No mists reign at Tangier, St. Simon!
  • No pinot noir on Orion to nip on.
  • No sir, away! A papaya war is on.
  • No, it is opposed, art sees trades opposition. (W. H. Auden, on a discussion of photography vs. painting)
  • No, it is open on one position.
  • No omen urn, I say, so rosy as in rune moon. (mrh)
  • No, son, onanism's a gross orgasm sin: a no-no, son.
  • Not a banana baton.
  • Not a tub, but a ton.
  • Not now, wonton!
  • Now, I won!
    • Now, even Eve won.
  • Now I see bees I won.
  • Nurse, I spy gypsies -- run!
  • Ode protocol: loco torpedo. (mrh)
  • O Geronimo, no minor ego.
  • O memsahib bart rabbi has memo (used in The Simpsons episode,Bart, the genius)
  • O, stone, be not so.
  • Oo! Doodoo!
  • Oh, no! Don Ho!
  • On a clover, if alive, erupts a vast, pure evil: a fire volcano.
  • Oozy rat in a sanitary zoo.
  • Or fret to stir grits otter ‘fro.
  • Pa's a sap.
  • Peel's foe (not a set animal) laminates a tone of sleep. (Lyrics from Kew Rhone)
  • Plan no damn Madonna LP!
  • Poor Dan is in a droop.
  • Pope Wodwo, how do we pop? (mrh)
  • Pull up if I pull up.
  • Race fast, safe car.
  • Raps clack calcspar. (mrh)
  • Rats drown in WordStar.
  • Rats live on no evil star. (from the novel Swords of Lankhmar by Fritz Leiber)
    • Evil rats on no star live.
  • Rats paraded a rap star.
  • Read me opera rare poem, dear (Ian Shadford)
  • Red rum, sir, is murder. (jal)
  • Rep aides process a passe corpse diaper.
  • Reified war--all its sides reversed--is still a raw deifier. (Daniel Gerling)
  • Reviled did I live, said I, as evil I did deliver.
  • Revolt if onward snug rajas kayak gnome-land --bologna venom mustard-- Drat! Summon Evan! Go lob DNA lemon 'G,' kayaks ajar, guns drawn, O fit lover. (Andy Adams)
  • Rise to vote, sir.
  • "Rum, rum," I murmur.
  • Satan, oscillate my metallic sonatas. (Stephen Fry). (or Stephen Chism)
  • Seva saves.
  • Sides reversed is (a useful phrase that can be slipped into the middle of some palindromic sentences)
  • Sip alone no lapis. (mrh)
  • Sir, I'm Iris.
  • Sit on a potato pan, Otis! (source unknown)
  • Some men interpret nine memos.
  • Spit on no tips.
  • Splash at Utah's Alps!
  • Stars are era's rats.
  • Stella won no wallets.
  • Step on no pets!
  • Stir grits!
    • Stir, gel, bible, gel, bible, grits!
  • Straw? No, too stupid a fad. I put soot on warts. (Leigh Mercer)
  • Stressed? No tips? Spit on desserts! (waitress's motto)
  • Sue, Zane—Lana, Dad, Mom—Jay, Amy, Maya, Joel, Noel—Mom, Darb, Dad, Nora(a bore) Rob, Aaron—Eve, Bob—Mom, Dad—Bob—Mike, Kim—Bob, Dad, Mom—Bob, Eve, Nora (a bore), Rob, Aaron—Dad—Brad—Mom—Leon, Leo, Jay, Amy, May, A.J.—Mom, Dad—Ana, Lena—Zeus!? (an awkward introduction) [Daniel Gerling]
  • Sums are not set as a test on Erasmus. (W. H. Auden)--No, Leigh Mercer.
  • Sunusu's tonsil is not Sununu's!
  • Sun at noon, tan us. (Andrew Harding)
  • Swap God for a janitor, rot in a jar of dog paws.
  • Tarzan raised a Desi Arnaz rat. (Baby Gramps)
  • Tell a body - do ballet
  • Ten animals I slam in a net.
  • To old Dallas, we Jews, all add loot. (J. Ramsey Michaels)
  • Too bad I hid a boot.
  • Too far, Edna, we wander afoot. (Bill Bryson)
  • T Eliot, top bard, notes putrid tang emanating, is sad. I'd assign it a name: gnat dirt upset on drab pot toilet! (W.H. Auden)--No, Alastair Reid.
  • Tulsa slut.
    • A slut nixes sex in Tulsa.
    • Tulsa/Miami boob: I maim a slut.
    • Tulsa night life: filth, gin, a slut. (Jim Kalb)
  • Viva le Tel Aviv! (Steve McAllister)
  • Warsaw was raw.
  • Was it a cat I saw?
    • Was it a bar or a bat I saw?
    • Was it a bat I saw?
    • Was it a car or a cat I saw?
    • Was it a hat I saw?
    • Was it a mat I saw?
    • Was it a rat I saw?
    • Was it Eliot's toilet I saw? (Bill Bryson)
  • We panic in a pew.
  • Wolf, I am a llama; I flow. (Liz Was)
  • Wo' Nemo toss a lasso to me now?
  • Wonder if Sununu's fired now? [1]
  • Won king is a sign I know. (mrh)
  • Won't lovers revolt now?
    • Won't cat lovers revolt? Act now!
  • Wonton? Not now.
  • Yawn I at Susan? Na... sustain way!
  • Yawn! Madonna fan? No damn way!
  • Yawn a more Roman way.
  • Yell "Avoid a radio valley!"
  • Yes, Mary Ramsey.
  • Yo Bob, mug 'o gumbo boy.
  • Zeus saw 'twas Suez!

[edit] Palindromic sentences that are arguably cheating

  • Do Re Mi, mime rod!
  • I come from the planet Ten Alpeht Morfe Moci.
  • I nam’d am devil Eros; a sore-livèd madman, I.
  • ¿Is God a dog? ¡Si!
  • Koselure Mordni La Palindrome rules - OK
  • Nidor of sagas for Odin.
  • Oh nog'n aw! Wang on ho!
  • Snug & raw was I, ere I saw war & guns.
  • Trofyl Boojmorg; Grom Joobly Fort!
  • Rettebs, I flahd noces, eh? Ttu, but the second half is better. (Stephen Fry)
  • We fart far aft'r a few.

[edit] Palindromic phrases

(incomplete sentences)

  • A moral aroma.
    • Amoral aroma.
  • All: Edna, Aron, Bob, Nora, and Ella.
  • Damn mad!
  • Dog God (Mark -- Shirleyville)
  • Dr. Awkward
  • Evil alive!
  • Flesh self
  • God damn mad dog!
  • Live evil!
  • Lonely Tylenol
  • Mr. Arm
  • Race car.
  • Red ice; rare cider.
  • Red loft folder.
  • So many dynamos!
  • Space caps
  • Snack cans
  • Rotary gyrator.
  • Taco Cat
  • Too fat a foot
  • Top Spot
  • Trapeze part
  • Yo, Banana Boy!

[edit] Palindromic names of people

[edit] Other palindromic names

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