VERBAL COMPANIONS IV

The Word's The Thing

Dr. Louis D. Appel

Specialized Vocabulary 

Each word below is commonly linked to two other words, both of which make familiar phrases. For example, given the word FAST, you could have "Fast and furious" and "Fast and loose." Can you name the two expressions that begin with each word below?

1. TOWN

2. PRIDE

3. LOVE

4. FAIR

5. RISE

6. PICK

7. HERE

8. HITHER

9. SEARCH

10. AID

Answers:

 

1. Town and country / gown

2. Pride and joy / Prejudice

3. Love and marriage / hate

4. Fair and foul / square

5. Rise and shine / fall

6. Pick and choose / shovel

7. Here and there / now

8. Hither and thither / yon

9. Search and seizure / rescue 

10. Aid and abet / comfort