5. Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll
10. All Music & No Talk
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5. Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll
10. All Music & No Talk
That's not 10, though the right answer conveys a similar sentiment (or perhaps, if you take it apart, the opposite one). Also, it's idiomatically Brit - so the Yanks here stand very little chance. On the other hand, it's likely to be a Yank that gets 8. I'm very even-handed like that.Quote:
Originally Posted by billl
I thought 6 and 8 would be the tough ones. I'm simultaneously impressed and dismayed that kasie got All My Eye and Betty Martin so immediately.
STOP PRESS: I've just discovered that there's a US equivalent of 10 - which would be AH&NC. It's one I'm going to start using, I think.
8. Ridden hard and put away wet. (Kasie's is so much nicer)
10. All mouth andno trousers
Well done, mick.
So we're left with two from the field of commerce:
14. B&PF
15. AA&AL
Also, following my addition to the previous post, the US version of 10, AH&NC (which might just be a Texan thing).... Not that that one's really part of the game - it just amused me.
All Hat and No Cattle
14. Bought and Paid For
15 Audited Accounts and Adjusted Losses?
(I know the feminine version of the All Mouth one......)
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Nope. It has to do with the expression of cost. To be honest, I nearly didn't include this remaining one because I don't think it's as neat a 'listy' thing as the others. If no one's got it by this evening, I'll give the answer and we'll move on.Quote:
Audited Accounts and Adjusted Losses?
If you're thinking of FC&NK, I'd say that that wasn't quite like AM&NT, which is about failure to deliver on a boast, whereas FC&NK is more to do with a high likelihood of delivery despite pretensions to the contrary.Quote:
(I know the feminine version of the All Mouth one......)
An arm & a leg.
Kasie's go, I think.
So obvious - when you know the answer.
Ah, gee, thanks, Mark.......
Right, the same only different - I'm incapable of original thought right now - opening lines of poems. An easy one to start off:
1 I X D K K /A S P D D
2 I W L A A C
3 H A L, H A L, /H A L O
4 S I C T T A S D? /T A M L A M T
5 I I A A M /A H S O O T
6 I W A A G N, A G T I
7 M L I L A R R R
8 T C T T K O P D
9 S O M A M F
10 A D T F I A T /W U E M G?
11 I M G D T T S A, T T L S A T S
12 H D I L T? L M C T W
13 I Y C K Y H W A A Y /A L T A B I O Y
14 T, T, B B /I T F O T N
15 T,T, L S /H I W W Y A
16 T B A T S T /D G A G I T W
17 A D S H N D
18 O, T B I E /N T A T
19 L M N T T M O T M /A I, L I N L /W A W I A F, /O B W T R T R:
And to finish, not a beginning, but an ending:
20 .............O!Y
S T C C A T T T?
A I T H S F T?
I'll smugly pick off the easy ones before I leave for work...
1 I X D K K /A S P D D In Xanadu did Kublai Khan
2 I W L A A C I wandered lonely as a cloud
3 H A L, H A L, /H A L Half a league, half a league
4 S I C T T A S D? /T A M L A M T Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
5 I I A A M /A H S O O T
6 I W A A G N, A G T I
7 M L I L A R R R My love is like a red, red rose
8 T C T T K O P D
9 S O M A M F
10 A D T F I A T /W U E M G? And did those feet....
11 I M G D T T S A, T T L S A T S I must go down to the sea again
12 H D I L T? L M C T W How do I love thee?
13 I Y C K Y H W A A Y /A L T A B I O Y If you can keep your head...
14 T, T, B B /I T F O T N Tiger, Tiger, burning bright
15 T,T, L S /H I W W Y A
16 T B A T S T /D G A G I T W
17 A D S H N D And Death shall have no dominion
18 O, T B I E /N T A T Oh, to be in England
19 L M N T T M O T M /A I, L I N L /W A W I A F, /O B W T R T R: Let me not to the marriage of true minds
And to finish, not a beginning, but an ending:
20 .............O!Y
S T C C A T T T?
A I T H S F T?[/QUOTE] ...is there honey still for tea?
Well done - I think you'd better be preparing the next puzzle. :smile5:
Blummin 'eck he's got the three I knew. (I obviously go to work much earlier than Mark)
...is there honey still for tea?[/QUOTE]Quote:
Originally Posted by MarkBastable
But I get home earlier.
Wow, am I impressed or what! It looked easy until I typed it in and then it looked horrendously difficult but - you clever lot have cracked it - just three left. Think C18th, Nursery Rhymes and Nonsense......
I I A A M /A H S O O T It is an ancient mariner/and he stopoth one in three
That'll be 'one of three', given the clue. Now I have to look it up to see which of you is right.
(I'm not suggesting for an instant that I'd've got it either way, though I should have.)
I standoth corrected.
15 .Twinkle twinkle little star.
I really want to raise an objection about the lack of U.S. poetry in this puzzle. HOWEVER, I only know the beginning of maybe three U.S. poems, and I don't really have too many at all memorized from whatever country, and for all I know half of this puzzle does actually consist of U.S. poems.
16. Twas brillig and the slithy toves....
Man, I'm embarrassed that wasn't the first one I got.
Ahh. 16. Twas brilling and the slithey toves/ did gire and gimble in the wabe.
A day off work today (callooh callay.)
Edit: Sorry, too late.
Quote:
Originally Posted by billl
No, you're quite right billl, this is the kind of stuff we brits took in with our mother's milk.
So we're left with the eighteenth century teaser...
8 T C T T K O P D
..which apparently my mother failed to supply. She was always more of a post-modernist neo-expressionist breastfeeder.
I did realise that this was a rather anglo-centric selection, billl, and I almost apologised to you in advance but the only American verses I could think of were 'Captain, my captain!' (Thank you 'Dead Poets Society'....), something about Annabelle Lee, a raven quothing 'Nevermore', something vague from Hiawatha and 'The woods are lovely, dark and deep/ But I have promises to keep/ and miles to go before I sleep' and I couldn't remember the opening lines. I know, I could have gone on line to fiind them but I'm a sweetly old-fashioned sort of gal who likes her poetry from a book she can reach down from the shelf and I'm ashamed to say I have no book of American verse. :blush: (It didn't find much of a place in Eng Lit courses in my day....) I did squeeze in a Scot, an Irishman and a Welshman - and I was a bit doubtful about Dylan but I can see his 'Lovely, ugly city' from my window so he sort of insisted on being in there somewhere - so it wasn't entirely English. And Mick's right - we grow up with these verses, even if we only remember the opening lines.Quote:
Originally Posted by billl
5 It is an ancient Mariner, /And he stoppeth one of three.
Only one to go - well done.
The curfew tolls the knell of parting day
That was lucky, it's about the only C18 poem I know.
Phew. That last one's a weight off my mind. I was becoming obsessed.
Okay - animal idioms. To give you something to go on, the animals are given in a separate list, but the initial letter is asterisked in the phrase initials. I think that a few solve themselves, simply because - given the animal - there's only one idiom it can possibly be, which'll make the rest easier to get. But we'll see how it goes.
- ABFO*
- A*NF
- T*WLDWTL
- E*HID
- APAAC*
- A*ISC
- FLA*SLAB
- *ITG
- YCLA*TW
- A*CCIS
- T*TGTC
- APAA*
- LA*TTS
- A*IYB
- O*DMAS
- UT*CH
- *IYP
- STSFT*
- DCY*BTH
- A*WASH
ants
bear
bee
butterfly
cat
chickens
cows
dog
elephant
goats
horse
lamb
leopard
lion
monkeys
mouse
peacock
snake
swallow
wolf
Thats a start anyway.Quote:
Originally Posted by MarkBastable
4. Every dog has its day.
6. A wolf in sheep's clothing
9. You can lead a horse to water...
19. Don't count your chickens before they're hatched.
14. A bee in your bonnet.
Hmm, Cat got your tongue, Cat's whiskers, Cat o nine tails, No room to swing a Cat, Cat's cradle, Like a Cat with the cream.
Ahh, No. 11 The cat that got the cream!
Brainstorming works!
What's left.
Monkeys
Peacock
Bear
Cows
Lamb
Mouse
Goats.
18. Sort the sheep from the goats
1. A barrell full of monkeys
16. Until the cows come home
Me, too, Mick! (I think). :smile5:Quote:
Originally Posted by prendrelemick
Update.....
ABFO* A barrell full of monkeys
A*NF An elephant never forgets
T*WLDWTL The lion will lie down with the lamb
E*HID Every dog has its day
APAAC*
A*ISC A wolf in sheep's clothing
FLA*SLAB Floats like a butterfly stings like a bee
*ITG Snake in the grass
YCLA*TW You can lead a horse to water...
A*CCIS A leopard cannot change its spots
T*TGTC The cat that got the cream
APAA*
LA*TTS
A*IYB A bee in your bonnet
O*DMAS One swallow doesn't make a summer
UT*CH Until the cows come home
*IYP Ants in your pants
STSFT* Sort the sheep from the goats
DCY*BTH Don't count your chickens before they're hatched
A*WASH
.....which leaves
bear
lamb
mouse
peacock
5 As poor as a church mouse
12 As proud as a peacock
13 Like a lamb to the slaughter
20 A bear with a sore head
Good game, Mark - Mick's turn, I think?
A traditional riddle.
As I was going through Bramble hall,
A proud old man gave me a call;
His beard was flesh, his mouth was horn,
And this old man was never born.
Hang on a minute! I bet kasie knew them all - all along, but didn't want to set a question.
Ummm - not quite, Mick and anyway, you beat me to it, I was out on Thursday evening so didn't pick up the puzzle until Friday morning.
But as you've sussed me, I won't try an answer to your puzzle.....
I have never heard these before:
The cat that got the cream
Sort the sheep from the goats
A bear with a sore head
British expressions, perhaps?
The cat that got the cream - probably Brit
Sort the sheep from the goats - Biblical, I believe (Matthew 25.31-46)
A bear with a sore head - probably US
Ok, thanks. New puzzle? Whose turn is it?
Mick posted a riddle last week. And apparently it's stumped everyone.
Maybe like a large pipe organ, with someone (the beard) playing it?Quote:
Originally Posted by prendrelemick