__________ 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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