The following are cliches that we've all heard. Test your vocabulary and see
if you can figure them out. The answers are listed below.
1. It is fruitless to attempt to indoctrinate a superannuated canine with
innovative maneuevers.
2. Scintillate, scintillate, asteroids minified.
3. Members of an avian species of an identical plumge congregate.
4. Surveillance should precede saltation.
5. Pulchritude possesses sole cutaneous profundity.
6. It is fruitless to become lachrymose over precipitantly departed lacteal
fluid.
7. Freedom from incrustation of grime is contiguous to rectitude.
8. The stylus is more potent than the claymore.
9. Eschew the implement of correction and vititae the scion.
10. The temperature of the aqueous content of an unremittingly ogled
saucepan does not reach 212 degrees.
11. All articles that coruscate with resplendance are not truly suritorous.
12. Where there are visible vapors having their prevalence in ignited
carbonaceous material, there is conflagration.
13. Sorting on the part of mendicants must be interdicted.
14. Eleemonsynary deeds have their incipience intramurally.
15. Male cadavers are incapable of yielding any testimony.
16. Neophyte's serendipity.
17. A revolving lithic conglomerate accumulates no congeries of a small
bryophtic plant.
18. The person presenting the ultimate cachinnation possesses thereby the
optimal cachinnation.
19. Abstention from any aleatory undertaking precludes a potential
escalation of a lucrative nature.
20. Persons of imbellic mentality divagate in parameter which cherubic
entities approach with trepidation.
21. Elementary sartorial techniques initially applied preclude repetitious
actions to the sqares of three.
Okay - so how many do you think you got right? Here is, in plain english,
what the sentences say:
1. You can't teach an old dog new tricks.
2. Twinkle, twinkle little star.
3. Birds of a feather flock together.
4. Look before you leap.
5. Beauty is only skin deep.
6. Don't cry over spilt milk
7. Cleanliness is next to Godliness.
8. The pen is mightier than the sword.
9. Spare the rod and spoil the child.
10. A watched pot never boils.
11. All that glitters is not gold.
12. Where there is smoke there is fire.
13. Beggars can't be choosers.
14. Charity begins at home.
15. Dead men tell no tales.
16. Beginner's luck.
17. A rolling stone gathers no moss.
18. He who laughs last laughs best.
19. Nothing ventured nothing gained.
20. Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
21. A stitch in time saves nine.
if you can figure them out. The answers are listed below.
1. It is fruitless to attempt to indoctrinate a superannuated canine with
innovative maneuevers.
2. Scintillate, scintillate, asteroids minified.
3. Members of an avian species of an identical plumge congregate.
4. Surveillance should precede saltation.
5. Pulchritude possesses sole cutaneous profundity.
6. It is fruitless to become lachrymose over precipitantly departed lacteal
fluid.
7. Freedom from incrustation of grime is contiguous to rectitude.
8. The stylus is more potent than the claymore.
9. Eschew the implement of correction and vititae the scion.
10. The temperature of the aqueous content of an unremittingly ogled
saucepan does not reach 212 degrees.
11. All articles that coruscate with resplendance are not truly suritorous.
12. Where there are visible vapors having their prevalence in ignited
carbonaceous material, there is conflagration.
13. Sorting on the part of mendicants must be interdicted.
14. Eleemonsynary deeds have their incipience intramurally.
15. Male cadavers are incapable of yielding any testimony.
16. Neophyte's serendipity.
17. A revolving lithic conglomerate accumulates no congeries of a small
bryophtic plant.
18. The person presenting the ultimate cachinnation possesses thereby the
optimal cachinnation.
19. Abstention from any aleatory undertaking precludes a potential
escalation of a lucrative nature.
20. Persons of imbellic mentality divagate in parameter which cherubic
entities approach with trepidation.
21. Elementary sartorial techniques initially applied preclude repetitious
actions to the sqares of three.
Okay - so how many do you think you got right? Here is, in plain english,
what the sentences say:
1. You can't teach an old dog new tricks.
2. Twinkle, twinkle little star.
3. Birds of a feather flock together.
4. Look before you leap.
5. Beauty is only skin deep.
6. Don't cry over spilt milk
7. Cleanliness is next to Godliness.
8. The pen is mightier than the sword.
9. Spare the rod and spoil the child.
10. A watched pot never boils.
11. All that glitters is not gold.
12. Where there is smoke there is fire.
13. Beggars can't be choosers.
14. Charity begins at home.
15. Dead men tell no tales.
16. Beginner's luck.
17. A rolling stone gathers no moss.
18. He who laughs last laughs best.
19. Nothing ventured nothing gained.
20. Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
21. A stitch in time saves nine.
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