So fun…and procrastinaty
Directions: Reduce these sentences to familiar proverbs.
1. A period of preeminence is passed through by each and every canine.
2. It is fruitless to be lachrymose because of scattered lacteal fluid.
3. Similar sire, similar scion.
4. Articles which coruscate are not fashioned from aureate metal; at least not necessarily.
5. Prodigality is produced by precipitancy.
6. Pulchritude does not penetrate the dermal plane.
7. It is not proper for mendicants to be indicative of preferences.
8. Your immature gallinaceans must not be calculated prior to their being produced.
9. A pterodactyl ungulate mammal may be addressed toward aqueous fluid, but it cannot be compelled to quaff.
10. It is fondness for notes of exchange that constitutes the tuberous structure of all satanically inspired principles.
11. Lithoidal fragments ought not to be hurled by tenants of vitreous abodes.
12. Beholden vessel never exceeds one hundred degrees Celsius.
13. A feathered creature clasped in the manual members is the equivalent, value-wise, of a brace of the bosky growth.
14. A detached fragment of the terrestrial lithosphere, whether of igneous, sedimentary, or metamorphic origin, and whether acquiring its approximation of sphericity though hydraulic action or other attrition, when continuously maintained in motion about its temporary axis and with its velocity accelerated by an increase in the angle declivity, is, because of abrasive action produced by the incessant but irregular contact between its periphery and the contiguous terrain, effectively prevented from accumulating on its external surface an appreciable amount of the cryptogamous vegetation normally propagated in umbrageous situations under optimum conditions of undeviating atmospheric humidity, quiescence, and comparative sequestration from corrosive-erosive agencies.
Answers posted tomorrow…leave your guesses in comment section as per usual…No cheating, also, as per usual.
April 18th, 2007 at 11:11 pm
1) Every dog has its day.
Don’t count your chickens before they hatch.
2) Don’t cry over spilt milk.
3) Like father, like son.
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6) Beauty is only skin deep (Ugly goes to the bone)
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9) You can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make it drink.
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11) Those who live in a glass house should not throw rocks.
12) A watched pot never boils
13) A bird in hand is worth two in the bush.
14) A rolling stone gathers no moss.
April 18th, 2007 at 11:19 pm
10) Money is the root of all evil.
April 18th, 2007 at 11:36 pm
5) Haste makes waste.
April 18th, 2007 at 11:57 pm
4) All that glitters isn’t gold?
April 18th, 2007 at 11:58 pm
And I give on 7. You now have at least 5 comments on this post so you should be thrilled. I want to know wtf a mendicant is though.
April 19th, 2007 at 12:43 am
Beggars can’t be choosers.