__________ and __________ XI
How many expressions can you think of in the form of _____ and _____ , but with both words starting with the same letter, the same two letters, the same three letters, the same four letters, or the same five letters? Three examples would be safe and sound, prim and proper, stress and strain.
(Possible) Answers: 
Same first letter:
Aid and abet 
Bed and breakfast
Birds and bees
Boom and bust 
Bread and butter
Buttons and bows 
Calm and collected
Down and dirty 
Drawn and quartered 
Drunk and disorderly 
Each and every 
Fact and fiction
Facts and figures 
Fame and fortune
Fast and furious
First and foremost
Flora and fauna
Guys and gals
Hearth and home 
Hem and haw
Jack and Jill
Lean and lank 
Live and learn
Might and main 
Mix and match
Name and number 
Paper and pencil
Pen and ink
Pots and pans
Rack and ruin
Rest and recuperation 
Rhyme and reason 
Rock and roll 
 
 
Rod and reel
Rough and ready 
Safe and sound
Shoes and socks 
Short and sweet
Slow and steady 
Soup and salad
Sugar and spice 
Tattered and torn 
Yin and yang
Warp and woof
Wash and wear 
Wild and wooly 
Zig and zag
Same first two letters:
Bag and baggage 
Bat and ball 
Black and blue
By and by 
Cash and carry
Do's and don'ts 
Dribs and drabs
Hale and hardy 
Hoot and holler
House and home 
Judge and jury
Kith and kin 
One and only 
Pride and Prejudice 
Prim and proper
Push and pull
Rant and rave
Rock and roll 
Search and seizure 
Spick and span
Stars and stripes
Sticks and stones
Storm and strife
Sum and substance 
This and that
Time and tide
Tried and true
Vim and vigor
Vim and vitality 
 
 
Wax and wane
Same first three letters:
Alas and alack 
All and all 
Brains and brawn 
Part and parcel
Pen and pencil 
Predator and prey
Slip and slide
Stress and strain
Then and there
Thick and thin
Same first four letters:
Half and half 
Same first five letters:
Stalagmites and stalactites 
  
 
 
  
Saturday, August 1, 2015
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