Names in Cliches, Idioms and Phrases

List the names that complete these idioms/phrases.

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Hint	Answer
The government of the United States	Uncle Sam
A voyeur	Peeping Tom
Sherlock Holmes catch phrase	Elementary my dear Watson
Name used for a female corpse when the real name is unknown	Jane Doe
The belief that anything that can go wrong will go wrong	Murphy's Law
A person's signature	John Hancock
An annoyingly talkative woman	Chatty Cathy
Award given to folks who, through stupid actions, accidentally kill or sterilize themselves	Darwin Award
Owing nothing; tied (in a game)	Even Steven
A genuine item	The real McCoy
A person who spreads disease	Typhoid Mary
An obnoxious know-it-all	Smart Aleck
A gullible, unintelligent person	Simple Simon

Hint	Answer
Biblical reference meaning extremely old	As old as Methuselah
A hedonist	Goodtime Charlie
A skeptic	Doubting Thomas
A naysayer or pessimist	Debie Downer
The average man	Average Joe
A person with a wide variety of skills	Jack of all trades
To pay off a debt with another loan	Rob Peter to Pay Paul
Not working properly	On the Fritz
Someone new to a group or philosophy	Johnny-come-lately
A weakness in spite of overall strength	Achilles' heel
Diarrhea suffered by travelers, especially visitors to Mexico	Montezuma's Revenge
Absolutely not!	No way, Jose!
Phrase commonly used in the UK that means "and there it is"	Bob's your uncle

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