With a little imagination, any word can be a compound word. In this game, contestants must fracture ordinary words into separate phrases. What combination of words forms the answer to the clue, "I like to change the places of everything on the back part of the stove"? Rearrange and "rear range"...obviously.
Heard in Curtis Sittenfeld: Fifty Shades of Jane
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