Time for a new thread.

Last 2 plays

rolandperkins Blue Dog

xorscape Hair of the Dog

Me

Dog Days

dog star

puppy dog

dog collar

dog gone it

Gone, but not forgotten

long gone

Long Man of Wilmington

long ago and far away

up, up, and away

Look, up in the sky.

(superman)

Its a bird

It's a plane

elliptical plane

plane geometry

a different plane.

different drummer

differential equations

Was too late. How about:

simple equations

simple Simon

Simon says

says you

...You Like...*

*as in Shakespeareʻs As you Like it

You're it

(As in "tag", ...)

It has come to my attention

(as in uh-oh)

attention deficit

deficit spending

spending spree

spending addiction

alcohol addiction

drug addiction

drug (on the) market

market priced*

said, in pre-recession times, to be the antonym of "affordable"
(in Hawaiʻi real estate, anyway)

farmer's market

(yum)

Market Street

man on the street

Street Smart

get a grip

get set

set up

game, set .....*

*as in "game, set, and match"

I'm game.

I'm out

out to lunch

lunch hour

rush hour

beat the rush

Devil horns

french horns

French Maid

Maid of Orleans

Maid of Honour

Her or His Honor

on my honor

honor bound

bound and gagged

bound for glory

Glory Alley*

*One of the worst movies ever made; even Leslie Caron, Kurt Kasznar, Louis Armstrong, and a walk on by Jack Teagarden couldnʻt save it.

blind alley

"blind mouths . . ." -- John Milton

blabber mouth

big mouth

Big Cheese

cheese it

Kingʻs It

Kings Cross

Queenʻs Egyptian Cross

chris cross

Chris Buckley

William F. Buckley Jr.

Penn State

state prison

state of the art

Art Deco

modern art

Art Deco

Art Nouveau, then (compare #82 and 85!)

Sorry, Hugh. I must be under caffeinated.

nouveau cuisine

No problem, Jennie, but now you'll walk with a limp to the percolator (from having your leg pulled ;-) )

cuisine minceur

Haut cuisine

haute couture (could that be described as haughty-culture?)

Taylorʻs Hautes Pyrenees

Pyrenees mountains

Mountains of Mourne

Mountains of Pharaoh by Leonard Cottrell

I didnʻt do more than glance at this, ca. 1961, when it was one of the newer non-fictions in the first public library I worked in. It has been a long=sgtanding TBR item ever since.

Pharaoh Hound

Thompsonʻs Hound of Heaven

food hound

sea food

sea cucumber

sea battle

sea urchin

at sea

at odds

odds and ends

Tight Ends (i'm watching the Michigan-Iowa game)

tight fit

tight rope

frozen rope

frozen banana

top banana

Top Cat

fat cat

fat lineman

Witchita Lineman

(Love that song)

offensive lineman

(that's Wichita, not Witchita)

offensive person

offensive odor

body odor

(oops, my bad...thanks pechmerle)

(I Sing the) Body Electric

electric eel

electric company

Absent Company

Three's Company

company man

company of thieves

Second City

Kansas City

New York City

Radio City

Gotham City

Sheaʻs All Things are Lights

The Thing from Another World

World Series

infinite series

Snore Wife*

*a character in the segment "Snore Wife and Some Several Dwarfs" in John Lennonʻs
In my own Write

Trophy Wife

The Tale of the Allergists's Wife

the "Deerslayer" tale*

*Mark Twainʻs disparaging reference to
J.F. Cooperʻs The Deerslayer

Mensagem editada pelo seu autor, Out 14, 2009, 1:12am.

Tale of Two Cities

Snowʻs Two Cultures

culture shock

celebrity culture

bacteria culture

Culture Club

night club

Billy Club

billy goat

Billy Mays

Willie Mays

Willie Nelson

Willy Wonka

Heehee?????

Willie Keeler

Ruby Keeler

"Ruby Gentry"

Ruby Tuesday

arc weld

Weld racing

racing car

NASCAR racing

cheese racing, which I learned about here in the GD

more cheese!

cheese cake

birthday cake

pound cake

dog pound

Oh, I just missed it, I could be an answer, Cake friend!!!!!!!!!!

anyway,

Pound sterling

>176 I'm sorry I didn't think of it. Another time.

Sterling silver

silver lining

free silver

free throw

lol cakefriend!!

throw away

fly away

shoo fly

When Pigs Fly

pig in a poke

minstrel pig*

*as in Steigʻs Roland the Minstrel Pig

Wilbur the pig

Charlotte's Web

pig latin

pig pen

pen pal

Pal Joey

Joey Jay

jay walking

oysters rockefeller

Rockefeller Plaza

Plaza Suite

Executive suite

executive privilege

executive order

tall order

tall tale

Shakespeare's Winter's Tale

Winter Wonderland

Aliceʻs Adventures in Wonderland
by Lewis Carroll

Go ask Alice!

Go Tell It On The Mountain

mountain bike

bike path

the right path

Caroʻs Path to Power

power hungry

hungry stones*

* as in Tagoreʻs The Hungry Stones
and Other stories

The Hunger Games

*a YA by Suzanne Collins

The Hunger Prevention Act of 1988

Prevention Magazine

MAD Magazine

Life Magazine

Mensagem editada pelo seu autor, Out 18, 2009, 6:30pm.

Life imprisonment

Life of Pi

"Life of Riley"

life sentence

compound sentence

compound interest

person of interest

person of disrepute

fell into disrepute

Barry Manilow

Barry Obama

before he used the Barak

We seem to keep drifting into names which is a different thread:

Hurricane Barry (1983)

Hurricane Higgins

(sorry, can't seem to escape from names just yet)

hurricane shutters

There.

camera shutters

I'll use 238 since it was first and stays away from names.

camera bug

"Bug" C. Malone*

*comedy movie of the 1970s; not sure I got the spelling right. (Not even sure it was intentionally a comedy).

bed bug

river bed

old man river

The History of Love by Nicole Krauss

history lesson

Ionescoʻs Lesson

Ionesco's Jack, or the Submission

Black Jack

Morris dancing

tap dancing

ballet dancing

ballet shoe

horse shoe

hobby horse

Fitzgeraldʻs "Pat Hobby"

off pat (as in "I learned it off pat")

standing pat

standing room only

standing ovation

in good standing

standing rib roast

rib tickler

tickler file

French tickler

Internet connection

No Connection by Isaac Asimov

No hope

Malrauxʻs Hope* (translated as Manʻs Hope

*LʻEspoir

Hope to die

...must die*

*as in Blishʻs Spock Must Die

must dash

dash of pity*

*as in: Ustinovʻs Add a Dash of Pity

A pity beyond all telling
is hid in the heart of love - WBY

My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity.
- Wilfred Owen

War on Want

Please Sir, I want some more..

"Your hair wants....."* --Lewis Carroll

*As in: "Your hair wants cutting", said, a propos of nothing, to Alice. As a child, I htought htis was a weird metaphor. How can hair "want" anything? I didnʻt realize that "wants" was normal British English for "needs".

Gosh, some of these posts have got a bit wild! However, this one has virtually been handed to me and is easy-peasy, so ...

... hair cut

The first cut is the deepest...

first base

prisonerʻs base

prisoner's cell

stem cell

sleeper cell

When God was a Woman
by Merlin Stone

Little did he know...

Butler did it

Rhett Butler

Butler, New Jersey

New Year

light year

light brigade

fire brigade

Iron Brigade

iron maiden

Iron Age

Age of Reason

"....reason together" *

*biblically-derived; a favorite saying of Pres. Lyndon Johnson

together again

We'll meet again, don't know where, don't know when...

"DONʻT write again!"*

Boston Globeʻs headline summary of Pres. Eisenhowerʻs ending of an exchange of letters with Soviet premier Bulganin during the Cold War. His actual words were something like: "I suggest that we discontinue this correspondence, as it seems to be unproductive.")

"Play it again, Sam."

Lowryʻs Zooman Sam

Sir Lowry

Dear Sir/Madam,

Mayflower Madam

Madam Jeanne Guyon

Madame Adelaide Bonfamille (“Madame”)

from Aristocats

Adelaide, Australia

Australia (the) Movie

Australian shepherd

Shepherd Kings

Kings Cross

"Alex Cross"

cross road

Celtic cross

cross hairs

split hairs

split persoality

banana split

splitsville

split, splat, splot

split ends

ends of the earth

both ends

ends v. means

ways and means

". . . after these ways" -- Macbeth

after hours

Happy Hours

Happy Halloween!

(good one Jennieg!)

Halloween costume

Halloween, the series

Test Series

The World Series

Publisherʻs Series

series of errors

errors of omission

sins of omission

"sins remembered" *

* As in "Nymph, in thy orisons, be all
my sins remembered"--
Hamlet to Ophelia

Blue Remembered Hills (Dennis Potter)

Robertsʻs Seven Hills

Hill Street Blues

Mulberry Street

Sesame Street

Sesame Seeds

revolt seeds*

as in: Frankʻs Dostoevsky 1821-1849: the Seeds of Revolt

Poppy seeds

Poppy Day

it's a new day

new year

new moon

Livelyʻs Moon Tiger

Moon River

river bank

River City

(I say you've got troubles, right here in River City...)

city slicker

city government

Sex and the City

De Beauvoirʻs Second Sex

second place

"...place and show"

The place to be

sense of place

Jamesʻs Sense of the Past

Sense and Sensibility

common sense

common ground

ground down

down grade

Grade School

grade point average

High Point meetings

Grosse Pointe

Grosse Shell Atlas

World Atlas

road atlas

road race

I was going to say Atlas Shrugged.

alright then,

road kill

Spillaneʻs Big Kill

Big Foot

Big mouth

Mensagem editada pelo seu autor, Nov 2, 2009, 11:18am.

Wodehouseʻs Big Money

money bags

bags not me!

bags under your eyes

stars in your eyes

dust in your eyes

dust bunnies

dust to dust

saw dust

Dust Bowl

dust jacket

dust cover

cover up

cover letter

cover girl

(are we doing triplets now?)

no

no

no

ground cover

cover story

story line

story time

question time

$64,000 Question

question mark

mark twain (notice lower caps i.e not a name)

mark of Cain

"According to Mark"

acknowledging that 411 (and 412) are "not a name", but the response doesnʻt have to be
a non-name.

Mensagem editada pelo seu autor, Nov 4, 2009, 12:53pm.

mark down

"Folly Down"*

*site of a T.F. Powys novel, Mr. Westonʻs
Good Wine

down town

when you're alone and life is making you lonely you can always go...

funky town

Faulknerʻs The Town

town center

center field

Center Stage

stage fright

fright wig

fright night

night gown

ball gown

ball game

board game

chairman of the board

good night, Seanie

Chairman Mao

Mao's last Dancer

Night jennieg :) (even tho its morning here)

OʻConnorʻs Last Hurrah

last rights

civil rights

civil marriage

Jamesʻs The Marriages

marriage of convenience

arranged marriage

annulled marriage

marriage counsellor (?spelling?)

Love and marriage

love handles

door handles

fire door

fire sale