Can you translate these sayings?

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Okay, lemme try this.

Mike Rotch
1. Scintillate, Scintillate, asteroid exiguous.
Twinkle, twinlke, little star.

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

3. Surveillance should precede salutations
?

4. Pulchritude poses possesses solely coetaneous profundity
Beauty is only skin deep. (but ugly goes right to the bone :) ) (I think it should be cutaneous, not coetaneous.)

5. It is fruitless to become lachrymose over precipitately departed lacteal fluid.
Don't cry over spilt milk.

6. Freedom from incrustations of grime is contiguous to rectitude.
Cleanliness is next to godliness ? (Rectitude doesn't seem to have anything to with God but I can't think of anything else.)

7. The stylus is more potent then the claymore.
The pen is mightier than the sword.

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

9. Eschew the implement of correction of vitiate the scion.
?

10. The temperature of the aqueous content of an unremittingly ogled saucepan does not does reach 212 F'.
A watched pot never boils.

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

12. Where there are visible vapors in ignited carbonaceous material, there is conflagration.
Wherever there's smoke, there's fire.

13. Sorting on the part of mendicants must be interdicted
Beggars can't be choosers.

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

15. Eleemosynary deeds have their insipience intramurally.
?

16. Male cadavers are incapable of yielding any testimony.
Dead men don't tell tales.

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

18. Neophyte's serendipity.
Beginner's luck ?

19. Exclusive dedication to necessitous chores without interludes of hadonisita diversion renders John a habatudinous fellow.
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.

20. A revolving lithic conglomerate accumulates no congaries of a small, green bryophitic plant.
A rolling stone gathers no moss.

21. A person presenting the ultimate cachination possess thereby the optimal cachination.
?

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

23. Missiles of ligneous or petrous consistency have the potential of racturing my osseous structures but appellations will eternally name innocuous.
Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt.


KM.
 
24. Progressing from the cooking vessel to an incendiary location.
Out of the frying pan, into the fire.

25. The visually impaired are not as handicapped as people who ignore ocular data.
There are none so blind as those who refuse to see.

26. Misfortunes regularly occur intermediary to a goblet and the labia.
There's many a slip twixt cup and lip.

27. Prior to a solar appearance in the morning comes the ultimate depth of shadow.
It's always darkest just before dawn ? Something like that?

28. Satan creates pastimes for the dextrally disinclined.
The devil makes work for idle hands.

29. Time quickly renders an idiot impecunious.
?

30. Serendipity is biased towards intrepidity.
Fortune favours the brave.


KM.
 
Q - 4. Pulchritude poses possesses solely coetaneous profundity

A - 4. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

That doesn't make any sense. Surely "coetaneous profundity" should be "cutaneous profundity" which is "skin deep". How does it translate as "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder" ?

"Beauty is only skin deep" is the right translation methinks. :)


KM.
 
TwinTurboJay
" Idle hands are the devils work " I believe is the correct phrase .

Actually, I believe "The Devil makes work for idle hands" is the correct phrase, meaning that you should keep busy otherwise Satan will find evil things for you to do, as oppsed to doing nothing being Satan's fault.


KM.
 
I always thought it was "idle hands are the devil's tools"...which would give it the correct meaning (given that general phrasing).
 
An update for Christmas. The answers are all Christmas songs (modern OR traditional) or Christmas Carols... Have fun... :D

1. Embellish the interior passageways with branches of Ilex aquifolium.
2. Nocturnal time span of unbroken noiselessness.
3. I am partaking of a nocturnal hallucination depicting an albino natal celebration.
4. Listen clearly, the celestial messenger produce harmonious vocalisations.
5. Tintinnabulation of vacillating pendulums in inverted argentiferous cups.
6. Omnipotent supreme being who elicits respite to ecstatic distinguished males.
7. Move hitherward, entire assembly of those who are loyal in their belief.
8. Geographic state of fantasy, during the hibernal season.
9. Diminutive masculine percussionist.
10. Small municipality in Judea.
11. The primary lack of the Romanic analogue of the Greek Λ.
12. Its arrival was witnessed at 00:00 on a clement night.
13. A jovial Yuletide is hoped by our collective for others.
14. Our group comprises a triumvirate of Eastern heads of state.
15. A fictional happy story, located in the financial capital of the United States.
16. Arrest the progress of horsemen.
17. An infantile Saint Nicholas.
18. A dozen diurnal periods of the Christian winter celebrations.
19. Allow the weather to contain crystalline precipitates! Allow the weather to contain crystalline precipitates! Allow the weather to contain crystalline precipitates!
20. The sum total of my wishes for gifts for this saviour’s day are both of my upper incisors.
21. Nominally a wolf in old German, of the genus Rangifer tarandus, possessing a vermilion olfactory proboscis.
22. The time of Noël – prevent the sonorous pealing of chimes.
 
No-one?

You big bunch of girls!

[/shameless bump]
 
1.- Deck the halls with... something?
2- Silent Night
3- I'm dreaming of a white christmas

Enough for now, my brain'll explode.
 
ooh if this thread is what i think it is try and guess what this word is and put it with this incomplete sentence. way anchor. put it with "your all a big bunch of?
 
Famine
An update for Christmas. The answers are all Christmas songs (modern OR traditional) or Christmas Carols... Have fun... :D

1. Embellish the interior passageways with branches of Ilex aquifolium.
2. Nocturnal time span of unbroken noiselessness.
3. I am partaking of a nocturnal hallucination depicting an albino natal celebration.
4. Listen clearly, the celestial messenger produce harmonious vocalisations.
5. Tintinnabulation of vacillating pendulums in inverted argentiferous cups.
6. Omnipotent supreme being who elicits respite to ecstatic distinguished males.
7. Move hitherward, entire assembly of those who are loyal in their belief.
8. Geographic state of fantasy, during the hibernal season.
9. Diminutive masculine percussionist.
10. Small municipality in Judea.
11. The primary lack of the Romanic analogue of the Greek Λ.
12. Its arrival was witnessed at 00:00 on a clement night.
13. A jovial Yuletide is hoped by our collective for others.
14. Our group comprises a triumvirate of Eastern heads of state.
15. A fictional happy story, located in the financial capital of the United States.
16. Arrest the progress of horsemen.
17. An infantile Saint Nicholas.
18. A dozen diurnal periods of the Christian winter celebrations.
19. Allow the weather to contain crystalline precipitates! Allow the weather to contain crystalline precipitates! Allow the weather to contain crystalline precipitates!
20. The sum total of my wishes for gifts for this saviour’s day are both of my upper incisors.
21. Nominally a wolf in old German, of the genus Rangifer tarandus, possessing a vermilion olfactory proboscis.
22. The time of Noël – prevent the sonorous pealing of chimes.


1. Deck The Halls
2. Silent Night
3. I'm Dreaming Of A White Christmas
4. Hark! The Herald Angels Sing
5. Silver Bells
6.
7. Oh, Come, All Ye Faithful
8. Winter Wonderland
9. Little Drummer Boy
10. O Little Town Of Bethlehem
11.
12. It Came Upon a Midnight Clear
13. We Wish You A Merry Christmas
14. We Three Kings
15. Miracle on 34th Street? Scrooged??! But these are movies, bah! :indiff:
16.
17.
18. The Twelve Days Of Christmas
19. Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow
20. All I Want For Christmas Is My Two Front Teeth
21. Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer
22.
 
Not bad... tabs + VenomFX220 got them mostly right (Santa Baby - Eartha Kitt; and Little Saint Nick - Beach Boys; One of them's right :D)

6. Omnipotent supreme being who elicits respite to ecstatic distinguished males.
15. A fictional happy story, located in the financial capital of the United States.
16. Arrest the progress of horsemen.
22. The time of Noël – prevent the sonorous pealing of chimes.

Just these to go - remember that everything in the clue is contained in the title. So "the financial capital of the United States" is part of the title...

6 is a Carol. 15, 16 and 22 are modern-ish songs (one by a British sham-glam rock band last year, so non-Brits will be forgiven for not getting it)
 
6. God rest ye merry gentlemen
15. Fairy tail of New York
16. Halt, yah donkey
22. Christmas time - Don't let the bells end
 
Famine
Just 16 left then... :D
Stop the cavalry

We still don't have 11.

I took them into work today and it's been driving them mad! 👍
 
Ah... :D

It's a Lambda. The equivalent in English is... :D
 
Ahhhh.

So 11 is the first noel then. A couple of folk said that, but I didn't know where they were coming from
 
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