The answers to the clues below will have something in common. Can you determine what it is?

1. Get to know someone

2. Superstitious good luck expression

3. Linus' big sister's full name in "Peanuts"

4. In the exact center (informally)

5. Study

6. Be lucky, as in winning a lottery 

7. Rock-filled ring between Mars and Jupiter

8. Maker of Frisbee and Hula Hoop

Answers:

 

1. Strike up a friendship

2. Knock on wood

3. Lucy van Pelt

4. Smack dab in the middle

5. Hit the books

6. Beat the odds

7. Asteroid Belt

8. WHAM-O Toys - - - The answers contain words that sound like they could hurt - but don't. 

 

Credit:

Merle Baker

HIT PARADE 

(This won't hurt a bit.)