Poll Results & TnT - Wordspinner Game

[pipisafoat]

Congratulations kylaye for winning the third contest! And a special recognition note to pippin for putting up such a good battle as well as coming in second with the topic "second" - that's just magic or something.

Don't forget to submit an entry for the 4th contest! Also, editors, keep on plugging with these edits, please!

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For this week's Tips & Tricks, we're going to be playing some nerd word games. All of these are taken from the book Wordspinner by Sterling Eisiminger. Behind the cut for length, you'll find a matching game for clichés...


From the book:
Instructions: All the phrases on the left are listed in Eric Partidge's Dictionary of Clichés, but few are ever heard today. Match each "cliché" on the left with an appropriate definition on the right.

Each set of 10 matches exactly. I'll provide answers on Sunday [note to self: pp 60-61] and congratulate anyone who gets all of them right. Enjoy!

1. nuptial knot	A. beginning and end
2. palpable lie	B. attack forcefully
3. Lay on Macduff!	C. bone of contention
4. admirable Crichton	D. marriage
5. alpha and omega	E. religious swindler
6. pious fraud	F. become peaceloving
7. apple of discord	G. obvious untruth
8. balm in Gilead	H. one skilled at many things
9. beat swords into plowshares	I. any object of aversion
10. bête noire	J. any comforting thing
1. bloated plutocrat	A. purchase recklessly
2. buy a pig in a poke	B. present someone a blank check
3. by hook or by crook	C. untested good point
4. give carte blanche	D. finishing stroke
5. cause célèbre	E. unchanging truths
6. cloistered virtue	F. self-indulgent person
7. reach the end of one's tether	G. by any means
8. coup de grâce	H. notorious case or lawsuit
9. not cricket, not kosher	I. run out of resources
10. eternal verities	J. unacceptable
1. filthy lure	A. red-handed
2. hoi polloi	B. hateful look beyond words to express
3. beat an ignominious retreat	C. ill-gotten money
4. in flagrante delicto	D. for the public's good
5. in high dudgeon	E. costly win
6. ineffable contempt	F. the masses
7. kith and kin	G. with a silver spoon in one's mouth
8. pro bono publico	H. leave in an undignified fashion
9. born to the purple	I. in a bad temper
10. Pyrrhic victory	J. friends and relatives

Comments

[silverflight8]

OK, so I took a wild, flailing leap on some of these (and couldn't do the middle set):
First set
1D, 2G, 3B, 4H, 5A, 6E, 7C, 8J, 9F, 10I
Third set
1C, 2F, 3H, 4A, 5I, 6B, 7J, 8D, 9G, 10E

[pipisafoat]

Congratulations, 100%! Give that middle set a try!

So fun!

[jorvaa]

Figured I'd do the middle set, since the other two sets have been done.
Middle set:
1F, 2A, 3G, 4B, 5H, 6C, 7I, 8D, 9J, 10E

Re: So fun!

[pipisafoat]

Exactly right! Glad you enjoyed :D I'll have to pull out this book more often. It has all KINDS of fun word games in it.

[cheratomo]

1D, 2G, 3B, 4F, 5A, 6E, 7C, 8J, 9H, 10I

1F, 2A, 3G, 4B, 5H, 6C, 7I, 8D, 9J, 10E

1C, 2F, 3H, 4I, 5A, 6B, 7J, 8D, 9G, 10E

[pipisafoat]

First set: you have 4 and 9 backwards
Second set: Perfect!
Third set: you have 4 and 5 backwards

Everyone's doing so much better with these than I did when I first saw them! I'm very impressed. (also yay Luna!)