PROVERBS IN DISGUISE VIII

The sentences and phrases below can be simplified into familiar expressions. 

1. Ingrained behaviors expire with difficulty.

2. In the course of life, we experience both victories and defeats.

3. Prudence dictates the prioritization of significant issues.

4. A dearth of one thing translates to a surplus of another.

5. Diurnal industry for quotidian remuneration 

6. Facile acquisition, analogous departure

Answers:

1. Old habits die hard.

2. You win some, you lose some.

3. First things first

4. Less is more.

5. A day's work for a day's pay 

6. Easy come, easy go

 

PROVERBS IN DISGUISE VII

Dell PennyPress Variety Puzzles

February, 2020

A simple proverb is buried in each of the sesquipedalian phrases or sentences below. Can you identify it?

1. An unexpected explosion of the visual spectrum in a cooking vessel. 

2. Endeavors characteristic of justice, prudence, fortitude, and temperance culminate in reflexive meritorious requital.

3. The higher the attendant population involved in an occurrence, the greater the guarantee that the prevailing atmosphere will be pervaded with a joyful ambience.

4. The entire telluric sphere is representative of a supportive scaffolding utilized by thespians.

Answers:

 

1. A flash in a pan

2. Virtue is its own reward.

3. The more the merrier

4. All the world's a stage.

PROVERBS IN DISGUISE VI

The Word's The Thing

Dr. Louis D. Appel 

Can you extract the simple proverb from each of the bombastic sentences below?

1. Assail not somnolent canines, but grant them their recumbency.

2. Its protrusion is comparable to that of an inflamed pollex.

3. Sanguinity is an inextinguishably emergent human proclivity.

4. The genesis of a dupe transpires with predictable chronology.

 

5. Facile acquisition, analogous relinquishment. 

 

6. Essaying iteratively effects superlative dexterity.

7. Beneficent commodities arrive enveloped in diminutive repositories.

8. It's unchronicled that arduous labor ever generated a deleterious effect.

9. Don't attempt to devour that which is in excess of your masticatory capacity.

10. The chthonian realm is devoid of choler tantamount to objurgated muliebrity.

 

11. His condition is analogous to that of an ichthyological creature bereft of its autochthonous purlieu. 

Answers:

 

1. Let sleeping dogs lie.

2. It sticks out like a sore thumb.

3. Hope springs eternal.

4. A sucker is born every minute.

5. Easy come, easy go.

6. Practice makes perfect

7. Good things come in small packages.

8. Hard work never hurt anyone. 

9. Don't bite off more than you can chew.

10. Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned.

11. He's like a fish out of water.

PROVERBS IN DISGUISE V

The Word's The Thing

Dr. Louis D. Appel 

Buried in each of the fustian sentences below is a simple proverb. Can you find it?

1. Exigency summons the maternal unit of creativity.

2. Pilfer from Peter that you may remunerate Paul.

3. Buffoons effect a precipitate ingress where seraphim demur.

4. Palpable performances are more vociferous than philological units.

5. Vascular fluid is more coagulable than life-sustaining liquid.

6. Permit the diminutive arboreal detritus to plummet fortuitously.

 

7. A diurnal pome obviates the propinquity of a clinician.

8. Those who seek enhancement by virtue of their assiduous efforts may envision the approbation of the Omnipotent. 

Answers:

 

1. Necessity is the mother of invention.

2. Rob Peter to pay Paul.

3. Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

4. Actions speak louder than words.

5. Blood is thicker than water.

6. Let the chips fall where they may.

7. An apple a day keeps the doctor away.

8. God helps those who help themselves.

PROVERBS IN DISGUISE IV

The Word's The Thing

Dr. Louis D. Appel 

Can you rescue the simple proverb from its sesquipedalian sentence?

 

1. Invert a nascent cotyledon.

2. Cipher essayed, cipher effectuated.

3. The strand is bereft of human activity.

 

4. Eschew scrutinizing the buccal orifice of a gratuitous equine. 

5. The mural structures are accoutered with auditory appendages.

6. Sylvan titans are effectuated by the diminutive products of their fecundity. 

 

7. For one suffering under the burden of adversity, gregariousness is a consolation sanguinely envisioned.

8 . It's tantamount to focusing your visual acuity in the pursuit of a domestic utensil in a mound of fodder. 

Answers:

 

1. Turn over a new leaf

2. Nothing ventured, nothing gained

3. The coast is clear.

4. Don't look a gift horse in the mouth. 

5. The walls have ears.

6. Great oaks from little acorns grow.

7. Misery loves company.

8. It's like looking for a needle in a haystack.

 

PROVERBS IN DISGUISE III

The Word's The Thing

Dr. Louis D. Appel 

Can you extract the simple proverb from these intentionally grandiloquent sentences?

1. Be careful. He's a lupine creature accoutered in ovine vestments.

2. A superannuated oaf affords no replication.

3. Be it cirrus, stratus, cumulus, or nimbus, each has an argent stratum.

4. A single instance of salutary comportment merits reciprocation.

5. The object of a bibliophile's affection cannot be appraised by its integument.

6. His cacophonous outburst is more deleterious than the occlusion of his maxilla and mandible.

7. Precede saltation with scrutiny.

8. Avian homogeneity effects gregariousness.

9. Unpretentiousness notwithstanding, no alternative topographical entity supersedes one's inveterate habitation.

10. One lacking in cognitive skills and his pecuniary resources are quickly put asunder.

Answers:

 

1. He's a wolf in sheep's clothing.

2. There's no fool like an old fool.

3. Every cloud has a silver lining.

4. One good turn deserves another.

5. You can't judge a book by its cover.

6. His bark is worse than his bite.

7. Look before you leap.

8. Birds of a feather gather together. 

9. Be it ever so humble, there's no place like home.

10. A fool and his money are soon parted.

PROVERBS IN DISGUISE II

The Word's The Thing

Dr. Louis D. Appel 

The intentionally sesquipedalian sentences below can be reduced to simple proverbs.

1. Desist from tabulating the progeny of fowl prior to the materialization of their offspring.

2. A single ornithological specimen secure in the manual appendage, exceeds in pecuniary appraisal double the number harbored in the bramble.

3. Fallibility is heir to mortals; remission of transgression characterizes the celestial.

4. An opportune enclosing of an interstice effects the redemption of an ennead.

5. Become a manufacturer of an agrarian product while the diurnal luminary is effulgent.

6. Consign not the entirety of your ovarian products to a common receptacle.

7. Peregrinate to the Occident, stripling.

8. A philological unit addressed to the sagacious requires no augmentation.

 

9. He who evinces levity with chronological finality does so superlatively.

10. Refrain from relegating to a subsequent diurnal occasion that which may be effectuated momentarily.

Answers:

 

1. Don't count your chickens before they hatch.

2. A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.

3. To err is human; to forgive divine

4. A stitch in time save nine.

5. Make hay while the sun shines.

6. Don't put all your eggs in one basket.

7. "Go west, young man." 

8. A word to the wise is sufficient.

9. He who laughs last laughs best.

10. Don't put off until tomorrow what you can do today.

 

IN OTHER WORDS II

Idiomatic language can be hard for English learners. For example, take the school-yard classic rhyming insult for one allegedly not telling the truth. What was this foreign exchange student trying to say when he yelled:

PREVARICAOR! PREVARICATOR!
TROUSERS BURNING!

Answer:

LIAR! LIAR! PANTS ON FIRE! 

IN OTHER WORDS I

Can you let the air out of these inflated maxims to restore the original proverbs?

1. Assiduous surveillance should precede saltation.
2. An immaculate environment is contiguous to deification.
3. Eleemosynary deeds have their incipience intramurally.
4. It is futile to futile to become lachrymose over the precipitous loss of lacteal fluid.
5. A manually retained fledgeling is equivalent in value to its double obscured in the chaparral.
6. Members of an avian species of identical plumage demonstrate a proclivity to congregate socially.
7. Within the compendium of articles that coruscate, there are many that are not genuinely auriferous.
8. Abstention from physically demanding endeavors precludes thereby the feasibility of augmentation.
9. A plethora of individuals with experience in culinary techniques vitiates the potable concoction produced by steeping selected comestibles.

10)
Three severely myopic rodents -
Diligently note their expeditious perambulations.
Functioning as a social unit, they vigorously pursued the agriculturist's spousal unit
Until said spousal unit peremptorily amputated their caudal appendages with a culinary utensil.
Have you ever had occasion to witness such a spasm of events during your period of mortality
As three optically challenged rodents?

Answers:
1. Look before you leap.
2. Cleanliness is next to Godliness.
3. Charity begins at home.
4. Don't cry over spilled milk.
5. A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.
6. Birds of a feather flock together.
7. All that glitters is not gold.
8. No pain, no gain
9. Too many cooks spoil the broth.

10)
Three blind mice -
See how they run.
They all ran after the farmer's wife.
She cut off their tails with a carving knife.
Have you ever seen such a sight in your life
As three blind mice? 

NEW OLD SAYINGS
Credit: GAMES Magazine
November, 2002
Craig McNair (#1, 3-6, 9 adapted)

Can you let the air out of these inflated sayings to restore the familiar maxims?

1. Amorous activity is universally victorious.
2. Neophytes' serendipity
3. The competent implement; the balance edify.
4. Allow for the possibility of an irenic society.
5. Jocularity is directly proportional to population.
6. Unrestricted control degrades utterly.
7. Pulchritude possesses solely cutaneous profundity.
8. Discrimination by mendicants must be interdicted.
9. Desist articulation if offensive verbiage is inevitable.
10. Take advantage of clement conditions to maximize productivity.

Answers:

1. Love conquers all.
2. Beginners' luck
3. Those who can, do; those who can't, teach
4. Give peace a chance.
5. The more the merrier
6. Absolute power corrupts absolutely.
7. Beauty is only skin deep.
8. Beggars can't be choosers.
9. If you can't say anything nice, don't say anything at all.
10. Make hay while the sun shines. 

PROVERBS IN DISGUISE I
Credit: The Word's The Thing
Dr. Louis D. Appel

A proverb is hidden in each of the padded clues below.

1. Imbeciles effect a precipitate egress where seraphim demur.
2. A lupine creature accoutered in ovine vestments
3. A superannuated oaf affords no replication.
4. Abstain from incising in excess of your masticatory capacity.
5. Facile acquisition, analogous departure
6. Assail not somnolent canines.

Answers:

1. Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
2. A wolf in sheep's clothing
3. There's no fool like an old fool.
4. Don't bite off more than you can chew.
5. Easy come, easy go
6. Let sleeping dogs lie.

SIMPLY PUT
Credit: NY  Times Crossword - May 12, 2013
David J. Kahn

Can you deflate this bloated bit of advice and rephrase it in as few words as possible:

The potential consequences of a plan or decision one cannot reverse should be carefully considered prior to the effectuation of the action - which action will set in motion events leading to an unavoidable conclusion.

Answer:

Look before you leap.