PADDED CLICHES II

The Word's The Thing

Dr. Louis D. Appel 

 

Can you remove the bombast from each of these clues to reveal a common expression or cliche?

 

1. Inebriated as a polecat

2. Purloined the exhibition

3. Inundate your tribulations

4. Protrude like a tender pollex

5. Curtail a protracted narrative

6. Repose of those possessed of probity

7. Possessed of the equanimity of a specific gourd

8. Rotate the antithetical facet of your countenance

9. Precipitous reversal of one's course of ambulation

10. Tepid as the staff of life subjected to an electrical current 

Answers:

 

1. Drunk as a skunk

2. Stole the show

3. Drown your sorrows

4. Stick out like a sore thumb

5. Make a long story short

6. Sleep of the just

7. Cool as a cucumber

8. Turn the other cheek

9. Hasty retreat

10. Warm as toast