Thursday, August 28, 2014

__________ THROUGH THE __________

Each clue below should suggest an expression of the form __________ through the __________.  For example, given the clue GET REALLY ANGRY, the answer would be GO THROUGH THE ROOF.

1. Do something reluctantly and with little or no feeling
2  Go to bed at 10:00 pm - wake up at 8:00 am
3. Do what you have to do to please superiors
4. Make steady upward progress, as at a job
5. Buy something for far more than it's worth
6. 1929 song popularized by Tiny Tim in 1968

Answers:

1. Go through the motions
2. Sleep through the night
3. Jump through the hoops
4. Rise through the ranks
5. Pay through the nose 
6. Tiptoe Through the Tulips


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