Learn English – Meaning of “”I won’t let a flat tire get me down,” Tom said, without despair””

jokesphrase-meaning

I've been reading Tom Swifties on a website, and could not understand one of them:

"I won't let a flat tire get me down," Tom said, without despair.

Where is the pun in that?

Best Answer

"Despair" sounds like "the spare." Alas

"I won't let a flat tire get me down," Tom said, without "the spare".

The definition of spare at Oxford includes

A spare tire


Note: at first I thought it was a pun on "without the air", but realised it was "without the spare."

Related Topic