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bossybritches · 06/03/2008 21:43

Shamelessly pinched from elsewhere

Can you work out what these well known sayings are?

  1. Similar sire, similar scion.
  1. Tenants of vitreous abodes ought to hurl no lithoidal fragments.
  1. It is not proper for mendicants to be indicatrous of preferences.
  1. Compute not your immature gallinaceans prior to their being produced.
  1. It is fruitless to become lacrymous because of scattered lacteal fluid.
  1. Glean gramineous matter for fodder during the period that the orb of the day is refulgent.
  1. Pulchritude does not extend below the surface of the derma.
  1. Not all coruscating articles are fashioned from aureate metal.
  1. Each canine passes through his period of pre-eminence.
  1. Freedom from guile or fraud constitutes the most excellent principle of procedure.

  2. Consolidated, you and I maintain ourselves erect; separated, we defer to the law of gravity.

  3. You cannot estimate the value of the contents of a bound, printed narrative or record from its exterior vesture.

  4. Folks deficient in ordinary judgment scurryingly enter areas on which celestial beings dread to set foot.

  5. A feathered creature clasped in the manual members is equal in value to a brace in the bosky growth.

  6. The individual of the class Aves, arriving before the appointed time, seizes the invertebrate animal of the group Vermes.

  7. Socially oriented individuals tend to congregate in gregariously homogeneous groupings.

  8. One may address a member of the Equidae family toward aqueous liquid, but one is incapable of compelling him to quaff.

  9. Forever refrain from enumerating the dental projections of a bequeathed member of the Equidae family.

  10. One Pyrus Malus per diem restrains the arrival of the Hippocratic apostle.

  11. Fondness for notes of exchange constitutes the tuberous structure of all satanically inspired principles.

  12. Supposing one primarily fails to be victorious: bend further efforts in that direction.

  13. Be adorned with the pedal encasement that gives comfort.

  14. Prudence and sagacity are the worthier condiments of intrepid courage.

  15. He who expresses merriment in finality expresses merriment excellent either in equal quality.

  16. A beholden vessel never exceeds 212 degrees Fahrenheit.

  17. A rotating lithoidal fragment never accrues bryophytic plants.

  18. Everything is legitimate in matters pertaining to ardent affection and armed conflict between nations.

  19. Exercise your visual faculty prior to executing a sudden transition in podiatrous position.

  20. An excess of individuals skilled in the preparation of edibles impairs the quality of the fluid porridge-like fatty deposits retained in the vessel for steeping purposes.

  21. An over-avid thirst for knowledge destroyed the life substances of a small, soft-furred, flesh-eating mammal often domesticated and kept as a companion.

  22. A person who seldom has occasion to utilize his mental processes, plus his units of current exchange, are very shortly required to depart each other's company.

  23. Circumstances sometimes compel a person who lives by relieving others of property and units of current exchange to seize and control one of his own kind.

  24. An opportune application of a well-honed steel sliver penetrated by a fine, stringlike length of spun cotton preserves one from similar applications of an odd composite number.

OP posts:
mylovelymonster · 06/03/2008 21:47
  1. like father , like son

will post as i work through ...if I get time

mylovelymonster · 06/03/2008 21:48
  1. those living in glass houses ought not throw stones
harpsichordcarrier · 06/03/2008 21:49

3 beggars can't be choosers

harpsichordcarrier · 06/03/2008 21:49
  1. don't count your chickens before they are hatched?
mylovelymonster · 06/03/2008 21:49

3......mmmm

  1. don't count your chickens before they're hatched
  2. no use crying over spilt milk
TurkeyLurkey · 06/03/2008 21:49
  1. don't cry over spilt milk
harpsichordcarrier · 06/03/2008 21:50

no use crying over spilt milk

mylovelymonster · 06/03/2008 21:50
  1. make hay while the sun shines
JRocks · 06/03/2008 21:50
  1. don't cry over spilt milk?
TurkeyLurkey · 06/03/2008 21:50
  1. each dog has had its day
mylovelymonster · 06/03/2008 21:50
  1. beauty is only skin deep
JRocks · 06/03/2008 21:50
  1. beauty is only skin deep
mylovelymonster · 06/03/2008 21:51
  1. all that glitters is not gold
ratbunny · 06/03/2008 21:51

7 beauty is only skin deep

JRocks · 06/03/2008 21:51

bugger, too slow

ratbunny · 06/03/2008 21:51

9 every dog has its day

mylovelymonster · 06/03/2008 21:51
  1. every dog has his day
DeeRiguer · 06/03/2008 21:51
  1. dont cry over spilt milk

crikey op you've got time on your hands

TurkeyLurkey · 06/03/2008 21:51
  1. a bird in the hand is worth 2 in the bush

  2. a fool and his money are soon parted

JRocks · 06/03/2008 21:52
  1. together we stand, divided we fall
mylovelymonster · 06/03/2008 21:52

10......pass
11. together we stand, divided we fall

ara · 06/03/2008 21:52
  1. You can take a horse to water but you cannot make him drink
mylovelymonster · 06/03/2008 21:52
  1. don't judge a book by its cover
JRocks · 06/03/2008 21:53

24 he who laughs last, laughs longest

girlfrommars · 06/03/2008 21:53
  1. honesty's the best policy