VERBAL COMPANIONS I

The Word's The Thing

Dr. Louis D. Appel 

In English, certain words, names, and phrases are inseparably paired together - aches and pains, Romeo and Juliet, between a rock and a hard place - and hundreds of others. In the examples below, you are given the last part of the pair. Can you hook it up with the first part? 

 

Examples:

ABET: Aid and abet

CLARK: Lewis and Clark

TAILS: Heads or tails

PODGE: hodge

DEEP BLUE SEA: Between the devil and the deep blue sea

1. Pieces

2. Crook

3. Carry

4. Costello

5. Jump

6. Jetsam

7. Bustle

8. Pamby

9. Able

10. Nail

11. Desist

12. Clear

13. Tide

14. Lamp post

15. Only

16. And tears

17. Ricky

18. Not least

19. Beans

20. Washy

Answers:

 

1. Bits and pieces

2. By hook or crook

3. Cash-and-carry

4. Abbott and Costello

5. Hop, skip, and jump

6. Flotsam and jetsam

7. Hustle and bustle

8. Namby pamby

9. Ready, willing, and able

10. Tooth and nail 

11. Cease and desist

12. Loud and clear

13. Time and tide

14. Between you, me, and the lamp post 

15. One and only

16. Blood, Sweat, and Tears

17. Lucy and Ricky

18. Last but not least

19. Pork and beans

20 Wishy-washy