Wednesday, July 1, 2009

Bombastic Proverbs #4

Ten familiar proverbs are re-written into lengthy sentences utilizing large (bombastic) words. Read each and see if you can decipher the familiar proverb. The answers are at the bottom of this post.

Sample:
Do not utter loud and passionate vocal expressions because of the accidental overturning of a receptacle containing a whitish, opaque, nutritive fluid.

Answer:
Don’t cry over spilt milk.


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31. Everything that coruscates with effulgence is not ipso facto Aurous.


32. One must sanction slumbering canines to recline in repose undisturbed.


33. Allow one’s terminating digits of the chiral appendages to accomplish the perambulation.


34. A paltry ten mills frugally preserved from disbursement is nonetheless a like amount gainfully received for services rendered.


35. Probity is undeniably the prime and unequaled procedure.


36. Dilatory attendance transcends absentia.


37. The pastureland unfailingly assumes the guise of a more vibrant hue when in existence on the yonder aspect of of any delimiting barrier.


38. One’s visual organs ofttimes greatly exceed in ponderosity the spatial confines of the alimentary canal dilation immediately anterior to one’s esophagous.


39. Judicious foresight often allows one to terminate a duo of aviary inhabitants by the mere employment of a solitary earthly concretion.


40. Though it may prove to be within the realm of potentiality to convey an equine to aqua pura, the ingurgitation of same by compulsion or duress cannot be effected.


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Answer Key:


31. All that glitters is not gold.
32. Let sleeping dogs lie.
33. Let your fingers do the walking.
34. A penny saved is a penny earned.
35. Honesty is the best policy.
36. Better late than never.
37. The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence.
38. Your eyes are bigger than your stomach.
39. Kill two birds with one stone.
40 You can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make him drink.

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