PERFECT PAIRINGS VIII

Joseph Appel 

Each clue below can be re-phrased using wordplay - especially synonyms and homographs - to make a phrase in the form of _____ and _____. For example, STOP FILMING and GLUE could be re-phrased as CUT and PASTE.

 

1. Don and rend

2. Aims and reasons

3. Swell and autumn

4. Muliebrity and minors

5. ATM numbers and taunts

6. Those in favor and those against

7. Rapid growth in business and a sculpture

8. Beginning of everything and the end of everything 

9. Give and a continuous photograph of a scene or recording

10. Ocean debris from a wreck and from stuff deliberately thrown overboard 

Answers:

 

1. Wear and tear

2. Intents and purposes

3. Rise and fall

4. Women and children

5. Pins and needles

6. Pros and cons

7. Boom and bust

8. Alpha and Omega

9. Give and take

10. Flotsam and jetsam