Pairs #22

Select the other half of each pair. Assume the word “and” (or an ampersand) between the hint and the answer.

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Thick

Thick and threefold. (dated, idiomatic) In quick succession, or in great numbers.

All

All and some. (obsolete, idiomatic) One and all.

Rules

Rules and regulations. (law) Legislation or other binding provisions.

Aces

Aces and spaces. 1. (poker slang) A poker hand containing only a pair of aces. 2. (bridge slang) A bridge hand with opening points based primarily on aces, so that there are not enough winners.

Nuts

Nuts and bolts. (idiomatic) The basic inner workings of something; the fundamentals; that which makes something operate.

Box

Box and cox. 1. (UK) To alternate with each other, often in the same post or location. 2. (UK) To alternate between two people.

High

High and low. Everywhere; all over the place.

Back

Back and forward. (archaic) Synonym of back and forth.

Baby

Baby and bathwater. (idiomatic, often attributively) Used in reference to an error in which something valuable is discarded in the process of removing or rejecting something unwanted. From the phrase to throw the baby out with the bathwater.

Mom

Mom and pop. A small business, often but not always owned or operated by a family.

Rock

Rock and rye. (US) Rye whiskey sweetened with rock candy, formerly used medicinally.

Bound

Bound and determined. Having a very strong feeling that one is going to do something and not allow anyone or anything to get in the way.

Prim

Prim and proper. (idiomatic) Prudish, strait-laced.

Catch

Catch and kill. (journalism) The media technique of suppressing a story by buying the exclusive rights to it, with a legally enforceable non-disclosure agreement, and then refusing to publish it.

Murder

Murder and mayhem. A pair of gruesome crimes sometimes used to refer to violence in general.

Forever

Forever and a day. For a very long or seemingly endless time.

Whinge

Whinge and whine. To complain peevishly or fretfully.

Heat

Heat and eat. A description of a ready-prepared meal that requires heating, but not cooking.

All horns

All horns and rattles. Furious. Belligerent. An American cowboy expression referring to the horns of cattle and the rattles of snakes.

Hot

Hot and bothered. 1. (idiomatic, colloquial) Aggravated or irritated. 2. (idiomatic, slang) Sexually aroused.

Pots

Pots and pans. Pieces of cookware.

Ps and Qs. Part of the idiomatic expression to mind one’s Ps and Qs, meaning to be very careful to behave correctly.

Cake

(US, naval slang) A restricted diet of bread and water, imposed as a disciplinary measure.

Foreign

Foreign and domestic. Part of the phrase “enemies, foreign and domestic,” found in U.S. oaths of office.

Shuck

Shuck and jive. (slang, offensive, derogatory) To tell a misleading story, especially for advantage.

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Bathwater

Bolts

Bothered

Cox

Determined

Domestic

Eat

Forward

Jive

Kill

Low

Mayhem

Pans

Pop

Proper

Rattles

Regulations

Rye

Some

Spaces

Threefold

Whine

Wine

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