TAILOR-MADE LANGUAGE

Dell PennyPress Variety Puzzles

March, 2019 (#1-4)

 

Answer each clue using words that relate to tailoring.

 

1. Don't say anything

2. Tease those people

3. Force the guy to choose

4. Vacillate in making up one's mind

5. Reconcile after an argument 

6. Be qualified for a task

7. Good advice for a woodworker

8. Bring to a favorable conclusion

9. Very much alike, as personalities

10. Denoting a very precarious, dangerous situation

Answers:

 

1. Button (or Zip) your lip

2. Needle them

3. Pin him down 

4. Hem and haw

5. Patch things up / Mend fences

6. Measure up 

7. Measure twice, cut once 

8. Sew it up

9. Cut from the same cloth

10. Hanging by a thread