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Pairs #52
Select the other half of each pair or expression. Assume the word “and” (or an ampersand) between the hint and the answer.
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Damned if you do
Damned if you do and damned if you don't. Said when one is faced with two undesirable options.
Everybody
Everybody and his dog. Used hyperbolically to express a large number or a majority of people.
I’m from Missouri
(primarily US) I'm from Missouri and you've got to show me. Show me proof of what you say. The phrase derives from Missouri's nickname, "The Show Me State."
Up
Up and doing. Active, especially following a time of illness, injury, or idleness.
All in the Kool-Aid
(slang) All in the Kool-Aid and don't know the flavor. Involving oneself in something one knows little or nothing about.
Juice
Juice and cookies. Trivial and uninteresting snacks or refreshments.
Give them an inch
(proverb) Give them an inch and they'll take a mile. If one makes concessions for someone, that will embolden that person to take further advantage of one, instead of being content with what they have been given.
Carriage
Carriage and pair. A carriage being pulled by two horses.
Darby
(primarily UK) Darby and Joan club. A social club for the elderly. It gets its name from the happily married elderly couple mentioned in Henry Woodfall's 1735 poem "The Joys of Love Never Forgot: A Song."
Tooth
Tooth and nail. Furiously or fiercely; with all of one's strength and effort.
Weep
(proverb) Laugh and the world laughs with you; weep and you weep alone. People like to be around those who are happy (but not those who are sad or morose).
Enough
Enough and some to spare. More than enough.
Large
Large and in charge. Assuredly in control of someone or something; having total authority over someone or something.
To carry fire in one hand
Carry fire in one hand and water in the other. To be duplicitous; to deceive.
Keep body
To keep body and soul together. To survive, especially through very modest means.
A pinch
(Primarily UK, Australia, Ireland) A pinch and a punch for the first of the month. A childhood taunt uttered while literally pinching and punching someone on the first day of a new month.
All talk
All talk and no action. Said of one who talks a lot about something that one has not actually done, or will not actually do.
Main strength
Main strength and awkwardness. Pure, unreasoning force of strength; brute force.
Fat
Fat and happy. Pleased, content.
Between hay
Between hay and grass. Unable to be easily categorized.
To be meat
To be meat and drink to (someone). To be particularly appealing or enjoyable to someone, especially when most people would regard the same task or topic with disdain.
Sunshine
Sunshine and rainbows. Happy, positive things, sometimes with a connotation of unrealistic expectations.
Hadaway
(rude slang, primarily Geordie dialect) Hadaway and shite. Get away from me/us! Get out of here!
‘Twixt the cup
(proverb) There's many a slip 'twixt the cup and the lip. Even something that one feels confident will succeed can have disastrous problems before it concludes. "'Twixt" is a shortening of "betwixt," an archaic form of "between."
A place for everything
(proverb) A place for everything, and everything in its place. One ought to have a place set aside in which everything can be stored, and everything should be stored in that place when it is not being used.
a punch
awkwardness
cookies
damned if you don’t
doing
don’t know the flavor
drink to (someone)
everything in its place
grass
happy
his dog
in charge
Joan club
nail
no action
pair
rainbows
shite
some to spare
soul together
the lip
they’ll take a mile
water in the other
you weep alone
you’ve got to show me
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