CLIP JOINTS I
Credit: GAMES Magazine
May/June 1982
Lola Schancer 

Each phrase below is the beginning of a familiar expression. The word that completes the expression is also the first word of another familiar expression. Can you find the word to complete the first phrase and use it as a clue to find the second one? For example, given the clue GIVE UP THE, the completing word would be GHOST,  and the second word would be STORY - as in GIVE UP THE GHOST and GHOST STORY. The second expression may be completed by adding one or more words.


1. Now or
2. Be my
3. Ride a high
4. Lip
5. Pop
6. Right as
7. Land of
8. Aim to
9. No money
10. Long arm of the
11. Bark up the wrong

Answers:

1. ..........never the twain shall meet
2. ..........guest speaker
3. ..........horse laugh
4. ..........service with a smile
5. ..........fly in the ointment
6. ..........rain cats and dogs
7. ..........opportunity knocks
8. ..........please be seated
9. ..........down in front
10. ..........law-abiding citizen 
11. ..........tree (surgeon, hugger, ring, house)