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The Idioms Invading via stealth game

 
 
Reply Wed 14 Jul, 2004 11:35 am
Okay...the object of this game is to guess the appropriate idiom posted in the previous thread...the catch??? The Presenting post must present the idiom in a very roundabout and wordy manner. I think it sounds simple. This game derives from a little game my husband (the teacher) played in a class he's attending.

Of course, I'll go first:


Those of little intelligence find themselves often & rapidly in situations where winged ethereal beings vehemently avoid
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onyxelle
 
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Reply Wed 14 Jul, 2004 12:09 pm
Those of little intelligence find themselves often & rapidly in situations where winged ethereal beings vehemently avoid

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Fools Rush in where Angels fear to tread


c'mon c'mon...your turn....put one out there for someone else to solve
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Phoenix32890
 
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Reply Wed 14 Jul, 2004 12:24 pm
The terminal part of the human arm located below the forearm which moves the small low bed, exercises control of the entire universe.
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onyxelle
 
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Reply Wed 14 Jul, 2004 12:25 pm
the hand the rocks the cradle rules the world :-)
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onyxelle
 
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Reply Wed 14 Jul, 2004 12:27 pm
i'll do another in a sec
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Phoenix32890
 
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Reply Wed 14 Jul, 2004 12:27 pm
Yup! Laughing
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onyxelle
 
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Reply Wed 14 Jul, 2004 12:42 pm
It would behoove you to not direct your visual perceptors at the oral cavity of a mustang presented purely for your pleasure
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cavfancier
 
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Reply Wed 14 Jul, 2004 12:44 pm
Don't look a gift horse in the mouth.
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cavfancier
 
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Reply Wed 14 Jul, 2004 12:44 pm
Dang...I'll have to think of something...this might take a while.
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cavfancier
 
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Reply Wed 14 Jul, 2004 12:47 pm
Hmm...

There are those who wisely believe that copper futures will secure our future.
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onyxelle
 
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Reply Wed 14 Jul, 2004 12:52 pm
i'm clueless
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onyxelle
 
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Reply Wed 14 Jul, 2004 12:57 pm
cavfancier wrote:
Hmm...

There are those who wisely believe that copper futures will secure our future.


a penny saved is a penny earned?
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cavfancier
 
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Reply Wed 14 Jul, 2004 01:14 pm
Right on, onyxelle. Next! This is fun.
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onyxelle
 
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Reply Wed 14 Jul, 2004 01:16 pm
cav - i edited that post 3 times before i settled on an answer lol
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jespah
 
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Reply Wed 14 Jul, 2004 01:29 pm
Ooh, can I play?

Do not discard the infant with the contaminated H2o used for washing purposes.
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cavfancier
 
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Reply Wed 14 Jul, 2004 01:34 pm
Don't throw the baby out with the bathwater.

Consider the lone avian, and the wonderful tactile sensation of underdown as it is gently stroked. What positive pleasure, so much more rewarding than trampling through the brambles just to spot a mating pair.
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jespah
 
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Reply Wed 14 Jul, 2004 01:49 pm
A bird in the hard is worth 2 in the bush.

Refrain from leaping to predicates.
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cavfancier
 
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Reply Wed 14 Jul, 2004 01:56 pm
Don't jump to a conclusion?
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onyxelle
 
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Reply Wed 14 Jul, 2004 09:15 pm
for each vaporous body in the firmament there is a border of a glistening metalic gleam
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cavfancier
 
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Reply Thu 15 Jul, 2004 02:38 am
Every cloud has a silver lining.

It's sunny and warm, and I hardly need my galoshes, but I'm happy to have a pair, for the time will probably come when they'll come in handy.
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