Old and New
The following are all newfangled, complicated ways of saying simple old adages. Can you decipher them? (Answers follow.)
- Male cadavers are incapable of rendering any testimony.
- Neophyte's serendipity.
- A revolving lithic conglomerate accumulates no congeries of small, green, biophytic plant.
- Members of an avian species of identical plumage tend to congregate.
- Pulchritude possesses solely cutaneous profundity.
- Freedom from incrustations of grime is contiguous to rectitude.
- It is fruitless to become lachrymose of precipitately decanted lacteal fluid.
- Eschew the implement of correction and vitiate the scion.
- The stylus is more potent than the rapier.
- It is fruitless to attempt to indoctrinate a superannuated canine with innovative maneuvers.
- Surveillance should precede saltation.
- Scintillate, scintillate, asteroid minific!
Fain would I fathom your nature specific!
- The person presenting the ultimate cachinnation
possesses thereby the optimal cachinnation.
- Exclusive dedication to necessitous chores without
interludes of hedonistic diversion renders Jack a
hebetudinous fellow.
- Individuals who make their abodes in vitreous
edifices would be well advised to refrain from
catapulting petrious projectiles.
- Where there are visible vapors having their provenance
in ignited carbonaceous materials, there is conflagration.
- All articles that coruscate with resplendence are not
truly resplendent.
- Sorting on the part of mendicants must be interdicted.
Answers
- Dead men tell no tales.
- Beginner's luck
- A rolling stone gathers no moss.
- Birds of a feather flock together.
- Beauty is only skin deep.
- Cleanliness is next to godliness.
- Don't cry over spilled milk.
- Spare the rod and spoil the child.
- The pen is mightier than the sword.
- You can't teach an old dog new tricks.
- Look before you leap.
- Twinkle, twinkle, little star.
How I wonder what you are!
- He who laughs last, laughs best.
- All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.
- Those who live glass houses should cast no stones.
- Where there is smoke, there is fire.
- All that glitters is not gold.
- Beggars can't be choosers.
