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Pairs #36 - Statistics
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- This quiz has been taken 216 times
- The average score is 17 of 25
Answer Stats
| Hint | Explanation | Answer | % Correct |
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| Huffing | Huffing and puffing. Breathing heavily. | puffing | 94%
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| Just between you | Just between you and me. In confidence. | me | 92%
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| Alpha | Alpha and omega. The first and last; the beginning and end. (From the first and final letters of the Greek alphabet.) | omega | 92%
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| Now | Now and again. (idiomatic) Sometimes; occasionally; intermittently. | again | 90%
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| A day late | A day late and a dollar short. (US, idiomatic) Too late and too feeble to achieve the desired effect. | a dollar short | 89%
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| Draw the sword | Draw the sword and throw away the scabbard. To approach or prepare for a conflict or military engagement with no intention of resolving it peacefully. | throw away the scabbard | 89%
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| Get-up | Get-up-and-go. Enthusiastic and energetic drive or ambition. | go | 87%
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| Bound | Bound and gagged. Tied up with something placed over or in one’s mouth. | gagged | 85%
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| A gentleman | A gentleman and a scholar. (idiomatic) An admirable, intelligent person (usually a man). | a scholar | 82%
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| Lord | Lord and master. One who has control or dominance. | master | 82%
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| Stress | Stress and strain. (engineering, materials science) The force applied to a material per unit area (stress), and the deformation or change in the shape of the material that results from the applied force (strain). | strain | 81%
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| Large as life | Large as life and twice as ugly. Presented before someone, often surprisingly or unfortunately so. | twice as ugly | 81%
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| A close chewer | A close chewer and a tight spitter. Someone who is very frugal or stingy. | a tight spitter | 80%
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| Cut | Cut and paste. (computing) To delete text or other data in one document and insert it in the same or a different one. | paste | 66%
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| A dollar | A dollar and a dream. A dream to do or accomplish something with no monetary means of achieving it. | a dream | 64%
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| Dog | Dog and pony show. (idiomatic) Any presentation or display that is overly contrived or intricate, while lacking real substance. | pony show | 64%
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| Blood | Blood and thunder. Both melodramatically violent and aggressive. | thunder | 59%
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| The good Lord willing | The good Lord willing and the creek don’t rise. (idiomatic, US, informal) Barring unforeseen circumstances. | the creek don’t rise | 55%
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| Beer | Beer and skittles. Fun times; pleasure and leisure. | skittles | 53%
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| Short back | Short back and sides. A typically men's haircut where the sides and the back are left shorter than the top of the hair. | sides | 50%
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| Bow | Bow and scrape. (idiomatic) To behave in a servile, obsequious, or excessively polite manner. | scrape | 42%
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| Best bib | Best bib and tucker. (informal) One’s finest clothing. | tucker | 37%
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| A fair field | A fair field and no favour. An environment in which all who are present or participate are afforded equal conditions and opportunities, having neither handicap nor advantage compared to their peers. | no favour | 36%
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| Still | Still and all. Despite the preceding. | all | 34%
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| Strike | Strike and dip. (geology) A measurement convention used to describe the plane orientation or attitude of a planar geologic feature. | dip | 16%
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