Pairs #21

Signs and symptoms. Indications of an illness, injury, or condition. Signs are objective and externally observable; symptoms are a person's reported subjective experiences.

Time and again. Often; repeatedly.

Shower and shave. Steps in many men’s routines to prepare for leaving the house.

Born and raised. Having lived in one's birthplace through one's adolescence.

Whooping and hollering. Shouting loudly and wildly.

Back and fore. Back and forth; from one place to another and back again.

Tick and flick. (Australia, banking, informal) A process that allows an accountholder to sign up to another financial institution, with the new bank taking care of all transfers, fees, and paperwork.

For all intents and purposes. For every functional purpose; in every practical sense; in every important respect.

Piss and whine. To complain in a constant or annoying way.

Sweet’N Low. A brand of artificial sweetener.

Heart and hand. With enthusiastic cooperation.

Cut and run. 1. (nautical) To cut the anchor cable and not wait to weigh it. 2. (by extension) To hurry away; to escape. 3. (military) To abandon a position as quickly as possible.

Horse and buggy. A light, simple, two-person carriage of the late 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries, drawn usually by one or sometimes by two horses.

Tried and tested. Well-established and tested; known to work or succeed based on extensive experience.

Smoke and mirrors. A deceptive, fraudulent, or unconvincing explanation or description.

Sword-and-sandal. A subgenre of largely Italian-made historical, mythological, or biblical epic films mostly set in the Greco-Roman antiquity or the Middle Ages.

Home and hosed. 1. (Australia, New Zealand, horseracing, figurative) Assured of winning. 2. (Australia, New Zealand, figurative) Having safely reached one's target.

Hither and yon. (literary, dated) In, at or to various places.

Bread and roses. A political slogan that originated in a speech given by U.S. women's suffrage activist Helen Todd: “bread for all, and roses too.”

Stop-and-go. 1. (US) A description of traffic characterized by short periods of movement alternating with interruptions in traffic flow. 2. (poker) A combination of moves in which, before the flop is dealt, the player calls on an opponent's raise, and then after the flop is dealt, goes all in, regardless of whether the flop works with their hand.

Aces and eights. (poker) A pair of aces and a pair of eights (especially, the black aces and eights), in a player's hand.

Thick and fast. Occurring in large numbers and rapidly.

Hot and spicy. A description of the taste of certain foods. “Spicy” refers to the combination and amounts of spices used. “Hot” refers to the types and amounts of peppers used, especially as regards the amount of capsaicin present in those peppers.

Spic and span. (idiomatic) Clean, spotless.