VERBAL COMPANIONS II

The Word's The Thing

Dr. Louis D. Appel

The word given below is the last word  of a two-part expression in which the two parts are generally inseparable. For example, given FLOW, the expression would be EBB and FLOW. Can you supply the first part?

1. Post

2. Battery

3. Glove

4. Order

5. Bees

6. Means

7. Panky

8. Cry

9. Famine

10. Prayer

11. Dance

12. Purposes

13. Parcel

14. Swim

15. Cranny

16. Wane

17. True

18. Jetsam

19. Jowl

20. Entering

Answers:

 

1. Form pillar to post

2. Assault and battery

3. Hand and glove

4. Law and order

5. The birds and the bees

6. Ways and means

7. Hanky-Panky

8. Hue and cry

9. Feast or famine

10. On a wing and a prayer

11. Song and dance

12 For all intents and purposes

13. Part and parcel

14. Sink or swim

15. Nook and cranny

16. Wax and wane

17. Tried and true

18. Flotsam and jetsam

19. Cheek by jowl

20. Breaking and entering