Wednesday, September 17, 2014

CLIP JOINTS II
Credit:  Idea - 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. Make the
2. Up to the
3. Look for
4. Open for
5. Garden variety
6. Drop in the
7. Knowledge is
8. Home for
9. Split
10. One for the

Answers:

1. ..........grade school
2. ..........minute waltz
3. ..........trouble shoot
4. ..........business hours
5. ..........show me the money
6. ..........bucket list
7. ..........power struggle
8. ..........Christmas card
9. ..........second to none (opinion)
10. ........money talks (is the root of all evil)


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