Phrases Study Guide

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three sheets to the wind 6x 16.7% stumper $333 avg J:5 DJ:1

J $200 2024 The usual number in this nautical phrase for being very drunk is 3, but feel free to get as high as you want

J $500 1989 Stewed to the gills, nautically speaking

J $200 2017 Take a chance on something risky & you "throw caution to" this

paint the town red 6x $417 avg J:3 DJ:3

J $100 1989 If you go out on the town, you're said to be doing this to it

DJ $800 2011 As animated here, it means to go out & celebrate boisterously

J $200 2013 "Color a metropolis crimson"

Get Smart 5x $360 avg J:5

J $100 1993 It often precedes "aleck" & "money"

J $1,000 2011 "Missed it by that much"

J $100 1992 "Sorry about that, Chief"

Mork & Mindy 4x 25.0% stumper $425 avg J:4

J $100 1997 "Nanu, Nanu" & "Shazbat" were Orkan words frequently heard on this sitcom

J $600 2011 "Nanu, nanu"

J $200 1992 "Na nu, na nu"

fish 4x $125 avg J:4

J $100 2001 If you have other, more important things to do, you "have other' of these "to fry"

J $100 2000 When you have something more important to do, you have "other" these "to fry"

J $100 1995 A predicament may be "a fine kettle" of these

Time 4x 25.0% stumper $575 avg J:2 DJ:2

DJ $400 2002 In a traditional story opening, this prepositional phrase follows "once"

DJ $1,600 2013 "To His Coy Mistress" says, "Had we but world enough, and" this, "This coyness, Lady, were no crime"

J $100 1996 The phrase "fugit ireparabile tempus" has been shortened to just "tempus fugit" - this "flies"

the Rubicon 4x $625 avg J:1 DJ:3

J $300 1995 When you take an irrevocable step, you "cross" this river, like Caesar

DJ $800 2012 To commit irrevocably is to "cross" this Italian stream

DJ $1,000 1991 To make an irrevocable decision, from action taken by Julius Caesar, touching off war in Rome

salad days 4x 50.0% stumper $775 avg J:3 DJ:1

J $500 1988 Speaking of her love for Caesar, Cleopatra described these "days" as when she was "green in judgment"

DJ $1,000 1986 A time of youthful inexperience when, to quote Shakespeare, one is "green in judgment"

J $600 2023 Chef's or nicoise Monday & Saturday

cake 4x $400 avg J:3 DJ:1

J $200 1996 The old saying about having this and eating it, too appeared in a 1546 book of proverbs

DJ $1,200 2014 The line about eating this & having it too was recorded in a 1546 book by John Heywood

J $100 1993 No matter how you slice it, something incredibly easy is called "a piece of" this

Curiosity killed the cat 4x 25.0% stumper $350 avg J:3 DJ:1

J $300 1998 To stir up trouble you put it "among the pigeons"; to give away an ending you let it "out of the bag"

J $300 1986 From ship's whip, not its mouser, comes problem of not having "enough room to swing" this

J $400 2025 The Mars rover committed felicide

pink 4x 25.0% stumper $800 avg J:2 DJ:2

J $200 1991 It may amuse you to know that this phrase means to be delighted or overjoyed

DJ $1,200 2012 If you're imbibing a drink called this "lady" at work, you might get a "slip" of the same name

DJ $1,600 2014 In "She Stoops To Conquer", Oliver Goldsmith wrote of this color "Of Perfection"

Worth Knowing (94)

the nines 3 the mustard 3 The Honeymooners 3 the fourth estate 3 The Flintstones 3 purple 3 New Year's Day 3 Mudville 3 Mission: Impossible 3 keep your fingers crossed 3 How I Met Your Mother 3 Gesundheit 3 alma mater 3 a red herring 3 a diamond 3 uncle 3 salt 3 milk 3 a dime 3 than with vinegar 3 the gospel truth 3 yellow journalism 2 Who Wants to Be a Millionaire 2 Waterloo 2 war 2 vice versa 2 two cents 2 The X-Files 2 The Waltons 2 the sword of Damocles 2 The Simpsons 2 the seventh-inning stretch 2 The Price is Right 2 the limelight 2 the gills 2 the beans 2 The Bachelor 2 the 8 ball 2 the 12th man 2 Survivor 2 Steve Martin 2 square 2 spitting image 2 snake eyes 2 small potatoes 2 Sic semper tyrannis 2 seize the wine 2 salt of the earth 2 rubies 2 Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In 2 quid pro quo 2 pursuit 2 pins & needles 2 pass the buck 2 money 2 Lurch 2 Let sleeping dogs lie 2 laissez-faire 2 joint 2 in vitro 2 I smell a rat 2 Happy Days 2 green light 2 Gilda Radner 2 footprints 2 Family Feud 2 even Steven 2 esprit de corps 2 dog tags 2 dead 2 Daniel 2 Dana Carvey 2 Dan Aykroyd 2 cordon bleu 2 Caveat emptor 2 carte blanche 2 burning the midnight oil 2 brown bagging 2 break a leg 2 blue laws 2 au contraire 2 Alexander Pope 2 a three-point landing 2 a pickle 2 a green-eyed monster 2 a dog and pony show 2 a dead ringer 2 a canoe 2 a 10-foot pole 2 which see 2 throw one's hat into the ring 2 their shoulder 2 the sixth sense 2 the Lemon Law 2

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