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.