10: Hoi polloi
14: Tutu?
15: Pitter-patter
22: Aye-aye!
23: Top-notch?
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10: Hoi polloi
14: Tutu?
15: Pitter-patter
22: Aye-aye!
23: Top-notch?
Well done, RH, but I had something different in mind for 23 (3,4-5).
3 tip-top
5 topsy-turvy
7 willy-nilly
12 not tittle-tattle
13 cha-cha-cha
17 georgie porgy
19 pell-mell ?
21 aye aye (the marmosetty thing)
Well done, Mark, yes to 3, 7, 13, 19 and 21 (it's a lemur!) but I had something different in mind for 5 (though I wish I'd thought of your solution) - 4-4 - and 17 - 4,4.
2. flip-flop
5. mish-mash
8. nitty-gritty (urgh, second word doesn't fit)
9. knickknack
12 . chit-chat
18. In Brit, 'select address' might be 'des res', but that's (3, 3).
23. The bees' knees. That possessive apostrophe prompts me to wonder how many bees are involved. Which in turn leads me to the realisation that I have never once in fifty years typed that phrase, otherwise I'd have wondered before now. Tell you what - let's avoid it all together and go for the dog's balls.
2. swim-suit
It may have already been got!
J
Blummin eck! I missed this one - are there any left to get?
4. slip slap slop
11. Hoity toity or upper class
7. Willy nilly
16. dilley dalley (spelling?) or shilly shally
Well done, everyone - just five left. I think I'll edit no 17 to just "Puddin'", because I agree 'Georgie Porgy' fits the old clue better but it wasn't quite what I had in mind.Quote:
Originally Posted by kasie
mark - looks like you might need to be on stand by for the next contribution. :biggrin5:
6. Wishy washy
1. zig-zag
After watching last week's Masterchef:-
17. Tart' tata'
6. namby-pamby ?
20. helfer levver
Yes,Mick (6).
Yes, billl, (1)
No, Mick (17) - nothing like as posh - good solid British fare, this one.
No Mark (6) but I like it and it could have been. And (20)? Er, no, not quite ..... but, again, I like it!
So - only, 17, 18 and 20 left.
17. Roly poly
and if we're doing funny spelling
20. Likert ysplit
18. Pall mall
20. Helter skelter.
I declare a draw between Mick and Mark - seven each. Fight it out between yourselves.....
Well I have this work in progress, I was going to string it into a story - but I can't be bovvered.
You have to guess the name that has become a metaphor or generic - or whatever it is.
He left a (AMERICAN ARTIST) on the pavement
She called for a (HATED AGENT)
My name is (MURDERER'S DOCTOR)
He did a (ENGLISH PEER) on the beach.
She tweaked her (AMERICAN PRESIDENT'S) ear.
Don't (SHAKESPEARIAN CHARACTER)to him.
He was a (FICTIONAL DREAMER) character
Let's (HOMERIC CHARACTER) the speaker.
His stories have (YOUNGEST STARFLEET OFFICER) moments
I'm going to (AMERICAN INDUSTRIALIST) up
Was there a (BIBLICAL CHARACTER) on board?.
His stories have (YOUNGEST STARFLEET OFFICER) moments
Wesley? Crusher?
Whoa.
EDIT: I see, I didn't realize Wesley's time with the bald trans-dimensional traveler lasted so long... So the answer is CHEKOV.
His stories have Chekov moments.
That's a better answer than the one I want.
I should explain that the names I am looking for have entered the English Language as a metaphor for an action or situation or as a generic name of something.
eg "The patience of JOB" clue would be "The patience of (BIBLICAL CHARACTER)
The one you have answered is the most obscure one. and infact Wesley Crusher's role could be an example.
I'm not quite sure I've got my head around this.
I'm assuming that FICTIONAL DREAMER is Walter Mitty, but if that's right, I don't understand what the point is of putting it in a sentence. Unless that's a particularly literal one, and some others are less straightforward - for instance, if there had been an AMERICAN PRESIDENT called Husband. Or, coming at it the other way, a cocktail called Quisling.
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Originally Posted by prendrelemick
His stories have ENSIGN moments?
(Even using the internet, I can't really tell if that means anything..)
Given that he's some kind of android, and therefore manufactured a couple of years ago, the youngest one would be that metallic guy, so the answer would be His stories have data moments. Which is not the sort of recommendation you're going to put above the title on the cover of the paperback.
"He's a Walter Mitty Character." is a phrase I have often heard to discredit whistleblowers.
Turns out Data was an amazingly young 9 years old when he became a Star Fleet Officer (actually, a mere 7 years old, if we discount the two years of deactivation before his discovery by the Federation).
I've heard that too (although I might not have known what it meant exactly).Quote:
Originally Posted by prendrelemick
OK 9 years old trumps my Star fleet officer. So additional info needed..
She appeared in one of the many Trekkie books that sprang up (Where she is billed as Starfleet's youngest Lieutenant at 15 years old.) A character without any flaws except that she hasn't any flaws.
? He did a Lord Lucan on the beach.
? Was there a Jonah on board?
? Let's Hector the speaker.
yes
yes
yes
American Artist: Pollock
Murderer's Doctor: Mudd
...and apparently there was an American President called Pierce, though I don't think he gave his name to holes in bodies.
yes
yes
some clues.Quote:
Originally Posted by prendrelemick
Th industrialist will be Hoover then. Only Brits might have got that. Yanks don't use the eponym as a verb - they say 'vacuum'.
This reader was considering graduate school in England but, after reading this thread, realized he doesn't speak the language.
Also, billl, your inbox is full and it's hard to stuff a letter into there.
J
EDIT: Wow, this was 1,000.
First, don't get your knickers in a twist - you'd soon pick it up. My Beloved has managed to, and this is a woman who, before she met me, used to make primetime broadcasts mocking Madonna's adoption of British cadences and idioms.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jack of Hearts
Secondly, it's not that much of a fag to understand the language, even early on. Most of it's the same as yours.
Third, the flow of influence used to be from the US to the UK, but in the last ten years - since BBC America and the Harry Potter movies - I've noticed more and more Briticisms turning up in mainstream American slang. This is an anecdotal observation, certainly, but I don't think I'm talking out of my bum.
Fourthly, if I were you, I'd come here anyway on the basis that you might make a couple of mistakes but, really, no one gives a toss.
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Having run my eye down the characters in Troilus and Cressida, I think that it must be 'pander' from 'Pandurus'.
Yep, thats another two right. I hope Jack takes a gander at your idioms Mark.
I thought I'd been severe in editing out things like " Hobson's choice" , "in like Flynn" and "Griselda" for a more international list.
"Yanks don't use the eponym as a verb"
oops! Didn't realize.
? Don't pander to him. (Though the character is listed as Pandarus?)
'Fraid that one's been covered, kasie.
The landlord's agent is 'Boycott', apparently.
I didn't know that. Hasn't been an entirely wasted day, then.
Ah - okay - got there. The President in question is 'Teddy' Roosevelt.
Just the very obscure trekkie one to get. A term I first heard on this very site about a year ago and had to wiki it, this was the result.
A **** ***, in literary criticism and particularly in fanfiction, is a fictional character with overly idealized and hackneyed mannerisms, lacking noteworthy flaws, and primarily functioning as a wish-fulfillment fantasy for the author or reader. It is generally accepted as a character whose positive aspects overwhelm their other traits until they become one-dimensional. While the label "**** ***" itself originates from a parody of this type of character, most characters labeled "**** ***s" by readers are not intended by authors as such.
I know what that term is. If I say it, does that mean I have to think of a new puzzle?
I hope not, because I thought it would be me, and I've just spent my lunch hour coming up with a new one.
Good then, because random trivia is the only mind game I'm any good at. The answer is:
http://vampjac.com/lj/humor/gygax/mary_sue.jpg