[From a friend’s high school assignment]

The following are cliches we’ve all heard. Test your vocabulary please.

1. It is fruitless to attempt to indoctrinate a superannuated canine with innovated maneuvers.

Answer. Can’t teach an old dog new tricks.

2. Scintillate, scintillate, asteroids minified.

Answer Twinkle, twinkle little star.

More: [See below for answers]

3. Members of an avian species of an identical plumage 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 continguous 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 respllendance 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 conglomerae 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 inparameter which cherubic entities approach with trepidation.

21. Elementary sartorial techniques intitially appplied preclude repetitious actions to the squares of three.

3. Members of an avian species of an identical plumage congregate. Birds of a feather….

4. Surveillance should precede saltation. Look before you leap

5. Pulchritude possesses sole cutaneous profundity. Beauty is only skin deep(?)

6. It is fruitless to become lachrymose over precipitantly departed lacteal fluid. Don’t cry over spilt milk

7. Freedom from incrustation of grime is continguous to rectitude. Cleanliness is next to godliness(?)

8. The stylus is more potent than the claymore. The pen is mightier than the sword (or anti-personel mine)

9. Eschew the implement of correction and vititae the scion.

Spare the rod and spoil the child

10. The temperature of the aqueous content of an unremittingly ogled saucepan does not reach 212 degrees.

A watched pot never boils

11. All articles that coruscate with respllendance are not truly suritorous.

All that glitters…

12. Where there are visible vapors having their prevalence in ignited carbonaceous material, there is conflagration.

Where there’s smoke

13. Sorting on the part of mendicants must be interdicted.

Beggers can’t be choosers

14. Eleemonsynary deeds have their incipience intramurally.

Charity begins at home

15. Male cadavers are incapable of yielding any testimony.

Dead men tell no tales

16. Neophyte’s serendipity.

Beginner’s luck… althoug serendipity is kind of a subset of luck, not a synonym…

17. A revolving lithic conglomerae accumulates no congeries of a small bryophtic plant.

HAHAHAHA That one i love… A rolling stone gathers no moss

18. The person presenting the ultimate cachinnation possesses thereby the optimal cachinnation.

He who laughs last….

19. Abstention from any aleatory undertaking precludes a potential escalation of a lucrative nature.

Nothing ventured, Nothing gained

20. Persons of imbellic mentality divagate inparameter which cherubic entities approach with trepidation.

Only fools fall in love…. the world is imbecilic not imbellic….

21. Elementary sartorial techniques intitially appplied preclude repetitious actions to the squares of three.

A stitch in time….> > 3. Members of an avian species of an identical plumage congregate. Birds of a feather…. The pen is mightier than the sword (or anti-personell mine)

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