Sometimes the words and phrases we use can determine if our message is understood by others. See if you can translate these words and phrases into the sayings they represent.

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2. Sometimes the words and phrases
we use can determine if our
message is understood by others.
See if you can translate the
following words and phrases into
the sayings they represent.

3. For Example:
The stylus is more potent than
the claymore.
Would Mean:
The pen is mightier than
the sword.

4. Scintillate, Scintillate,
asteroid exiguous.

5. Scintillate, Scintillate,
asteroid exiguous.
Twinkle, Twinkle,
little star.

6. Members of an avian species of
identical plumage congregate.

7. Members of an avian species of
identical plumage congregate.
Birds of a feather flock
together.

8. Surveillance should
precede salutations.

9. Surveillance should
precede salutations.
Think before you speak.

10. Pulchritude poses possesses
solely cutaneous profundity.

11. Pulchritude poses possesses
solely cutaneous profundity.
Beauty is in the eye of
the beholder.

12. It is fruitless to become
lachrymose over precipitately
departed lacteal fluid.

13. It is fruitless to become
lachrymose over precipitately
departed lacteal fluid.
Don’t cry over
spilled milk.

14. Freedom from incrustations of
grime is contiguous to
rectitude.

15. Freedom from incrustations of
grime is contiguous to
rectitude.
Cleanliness is next to
godliness.

16. It is fruitless to attempt to
indoctrinate a superannuated
canine with innovative
maneuvers.

17. It is fruitless to attempt to
indoctrinate a superannuated
canine with innovative
maneuvers.
You can’t teach an old
dog new tricks.

18. Eschew the implement of
correction of vitiate the scion.

19. Eschew the implement of
correction of vitiate the scion.
Spare the rod and
spoil the child.

20. The temperature of the
aqueous content of an
unremittingly ogled saucepan
does not reach 212 F.

21. The temperature of the
aqueous content of an
unremittingly ogled saucepan
does not reach 212 F.
A watched pot
doesn’t boil.

22. All articles that coruscate with
resplendence are not truly
auriferous.

23. All articles that coruscate with
resplendence are not truly
auriferous.
All that glitters
is not gold.

24. Where there are visible vapors
in ignited carbonaceous
material, there is conflagration.

25. Where there are visible vapors
in ignited carbonaceous
material, there is conflagration.
Where there’s smoke,
there’s fire.

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

27. Sorting on the part of
mendicants must be
interdicted.
Beggars can’t be
choosers.

28. A plethora of individual with
expertise in culinary
techniques vitiate the potable
concoctions produced by
steeping certain comestibles.

29. A plethora of individual with
expertise in culinary techniques
vitiate the potable concoctions
produced by steeping certain
comestibles.
Too many cooks spoil
the broth.

30. Eleemosynary deeds have their
insipience intramural.

31. Eleemosynary deeds have their
insipience intramural.
Good deeds begin
at home.

32. Male cadavers are incapable of
yielding any testimony.

33. Male cadavers are incapable of
yielding any testimony.
Dead men tell
no tales.

34. Individuals who make their
abode in vitreous edifices
would be advised to refrain
from catapulting porous
projectiles.

35. Individuals who make their abode
in vitreous edifices would be
advised to refrain from
catapulting porous projectiles.
People in glass houses
shouldn’t throw stones.

36. Neophyte’s serendipity.

37. Neophyte’s serendipity.
Beginner’s luck.

38. Exclusive dedication to
necessitous chores without
interludes of hedonistic
diversion renders John a
hebetudinous fellow.

39. Exclusive dedication to
necessitous chores without
interludes of hedonistic diversion
renders John a hebetudinous
fellow.
All work and no play
makes John a dull boy.

40. A revolving litchis
conglomerate accumulates no
congeries of a small, green
bryophyte plant.

41. A revolving litchis
conglomerate accumulates no
congeries of a small, green
bryophyte plant.
A rolling stone gathers
no moss.

42. A person presenting the
ultimate cachinnation possess
thereby the optimal
cachinnation.

43. A person presenting the
ultimate cachinnation possess
thereby the optimal
cachinnation.
He, who laughs last,
laughs best.

44. Abstention from any aleatory
undertakings precludes a
potent potential escalation of
lucrative nature.

45. Abstention from any aleatory
undertakings precludes a
potent potential escalation of
lucrative nature.
Nothing ventured,
nothing gained.

46. Missiles of ligneous or porous
consistency have the potential
of fracturing my osseous
structures but appellations will
eternally name innocuous.

47. Missiles of ligneous or porous
consistency have the potential of
fracturing my osseous structures
but appellations will eternally name
innocuous.
Sticks and stones can
break my bones, but
names can never hurt me.