[Edd_y]

I stumbled upon these and am having some fun with them.
If you think you’ve got the brains and the knowledge of the English language, try these!

Some of them made me feel quite frustrated, but with a dictionary I was able to do them all! (Well actually still missing 2 of these… Can’t figure em out.)

Let the brain busting begin! Can you do them all or can you only figure out a few? Post your answers and ill tell you if you are correct!

If this takes off I have quite a bit more of em! (You are not dumb if you can not do these, I had an English professor stumbled with a few of these!)

Now these are all common sayings in the English language.

First, an example.

Scintillate, Scintillate, asteroid minutia = Twinkle, twinkle little star.

Members of an avian species of identical plumage congregate = Birds of a feather stick together.

The stylus is mightier than then claymore = Pen is mightier than the sword.


Ok here they come.


Surveillance should precede salvation

Pulchritude possesses solely coetaneous profundity

Freedom from encrustations of grime is contagious to rectitude

It is Fruitless to become lachrymose over perceptibly departed lacteal fluid

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

All articles that coruscate with resplendence are not truly auriferous.

Eschew the implement of correction and vitiate the scion

The temperature of the aqueous content of an unremittingly ogled saucepan does not reach 100 Centigrade

Opting on the part of mendicants must be interdicted

Where there are visible vapors having their provenance in ignited carbonaceous materials there is conflagration

A plethora of individuals with expertise in culinary techniques vitiates the potable concoction produced by steeping certain combustibles.

Eleemosynary deeds have their incipience intramurally

Individuals who make their abodes in vitreous edifices would be advised to refrain from catapulting petrous projectiles

Neophyte’s serendipity

Male cadavers are incapable of yielding and testimony

Exclusive dedication to necessitous chores without interlude of hedonistic diversion renders John a hebetudinous Fellow.

A revolving lithic conglomerate accumulates no congeries of minute, verdant bryophitic vegetation

The person representing the ultimate cachinnation possesses thereby the optimal cachinnation

Missiles of a ligneous or petrous consistency have the potential of fracturing my osseous structure, but appellations will eternally remain innocuous

Abstention from elevatory undertakings precludes a potential escalation of a lucrative nature

Eschew obfuscated phraseology: employ perspicuous verbiage

Veracity ascertains emancipation

A pulchritudinous entity pleasures eternally

Mandate establishing orb and bicuspid exchange

Don’t inquire and you won’t be treated to deceit

Four farthing coins for confessing fancies

New York is New York and California is California, but an encounter between them cannot ever exist

A singular measure if 28.3 grams used to anticipate, interrupt, and forestall an impending event has a value equivalent to sixteen times that amount applied later as a restorative remedy.

It is common for mankind to be amiss in the commission of an omission, but permission for remission is the mission of providence

Fair damsel’s drudgery both drag on forever

In scant cognition there’s a precarious condition

Propinquity avails itself only in the coverlets of equine quadru-bases