Oxymoron phrases you've seen or came up with

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Genuine Imitation Bacon

(an actual product they used to advertise on tv).

Time ended...yesterday!

( the world shortest science fiction story).

Deafening silence

Organized chaos

When somebody says to me 'it's the same but different'

When somebody orders a large meal and side dish and a dessert at say McDonalds then states they need a diet coke as they are on a diet.....

Incredible truth - truth isn't necessarily linked with believability
dark blond - it's a qualitative of the "blond", it works as it is opposed to other, lighter "blondes"
A blue moon - it happens to appear blue sometimes
Melodic Black Metal - more of a pleonasm if you ask me , same as #2
Modern classic - recent classic, classic doesn't necessarily mean old, pretty close to an oxymoron though...
Lets agree to disagree - "let's stop beakering", makes perfect sense, a semantically opposite term must be an attribute of another for the construct to qualify as an oxymoron
"military intelligence" and the likes are actually jokes, the people who brought them as "oxymorons" where being intentionally offensive.

Soft rock

That's all I can think of

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Silent sound

grown up kid

slow running

pianoforte

pretty ugly

same difference

honest liar

honest thief

minor hurricane

minor tornado

minor earthquake

clean dirt

clean bathroom

clean toilet

I though of another one
Chaos Control

This is more of an adynaton than oxymoron perhaps, but here it goes..

When hell freezes over.

Nuclear love

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Vague clarification

The Brits frequently use the word "terribly" to mean (not necessarily terrible) but simply "extreme". They then procede to couple the adjective to other adjectives regardless of whether those second adjectives have postive or negative meanings.

The result is a constant stream of amusing oxymorans ( or thats how they sound to this american ear) like "terribly wonderful", "terribly good", "terribly delicious", and so forth.

It cracks me up that something be "terribly good"!

So good that it inspires terror!

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