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The following phrases are colloquialisms, idioms or proverbs that are written in their literal, and rather complicated form. Can you uncover their true meanings and solve this teaser?
Example: "Don't place the two wheeled vehicle in a position preceding the equine mammal," is the proverb "Don't put the cart before the horse."
1. Positive aesthetic appeal is solely the equivalent of the thickness of the epidermis.
2. The ground covering of slender leaved plants is always a more vibrant hue of a common secondary color in the proximity of the opposite surface of a structure serving as a boundary.
3. Produce the sound of sharp tapping by striking blows to a processed piece of secondary xylem from a large perennial plant.
4. The gyre that emanates shrill sounds receives the viscous lubricant.
Example: "Don't place the two wheeled vehicle in a position preceding the equine mammal," is the proverb "Don't put the cart before the horse."
1. Positive aesthetic appeal is solely the equivalent of the thickness of the epidermis.
2. The ground covering of slender leaved plants is always a more vibrant hue of a common secondary color in the proximity of the opposite surface of a structure serving as a boundary.
3. Produce the sound of sharp tapping by striking blows to a processed piece of secondary xylem from a large perennial plant.
4. The gyre that emanates shrill sounds receives the viscous lubricant.
Answer
1. Beauty is only skin deep.2. The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence.
3. Knock on wood.
4. The squeaky wheel gets the grease.
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that was hard!! but very intellegent!! i like that! keep them coming
I love these! I really enjoy figuring them out and got them all!
i love this kind of teaser!!! i never figure them out but...... great job!!!!
good teaser
i didnt get the answer though...............
i didnt get the answer though...............
I got 1.....
but great teaser! I love these! Keep them coming!
but great teaser! I love these! Keep them coming!
Aug 08, 2005
Awesome teaser! I got all but the last one... Keep it up!
Good one. Keep them coming
i managed to get 2-- loved this teaser!
mister fancy pants language. lol just kidding i loved it
I am emensely jubilant and overjoyed that upon deciphering this literary puzzle I created you did indeed experience similar positive complex emtional responses.
Translation
I liked making it and I am glad you all liked it!!
Translation
I liked making it and I am glad you all liked it!!
really enjoyed it tam, but "viscious grease"? why was the oil angry/violent? or am i having another blonde day?
It's not that type of viscous...
Viscous is a liquid's resistance to flow.
Vicious is mean, rabid, cruel, etc.
Yes, very confusing...
Anyways, good job on the teaser. These are much harder than mine! Good job!
Viscous is a liquid's resistance to flow.
Vicious is mean, rabid, cruel, etc.
Yes, very confusing...
Anyways, good job on the teaser. These are much harder than mine! Good job!
Thank you for explaining that for sweet.
Thank you. I used terrible grammar, however.
Thanks again for the inspiration
Thank you. I used terrible grammar, however.
Thanks again for the inspiration
lol - i was having a blonde day, didn't even spot the lack of the "i" in viscious when i wrote the comment *sigh*
i take it all back tam - well done!!
i take it all back tam - well done!!
No worries.
Thanks again
Thanks again
Love this one! Intelligent. Way to go!
Thank you!
very good
Excellent!!!
That was so cool! Please make some more, because that was way too much fun!
Whoa baby, very fun! Very hard, but very fun. I actually let out a cry of triumph for getting one of them correct...
wow! Glad this one is still being enjoyed after all this time. I hope to get Braingling and crank out some new fun soon.
Heh.. liked this. I would say it was too easy, but I think if it was any harder it would be too hard. Which doesn't make sense...
dude! it has been so long that I couldn't get #3! On my OWN TEASER!! LOL
Whoah! I need to Braingle more
Whoah! I need to Braingle more
Still fun after all these years.
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