Can you translate these sayings?

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1. Scintillate, Scintillate, asteroid exiguous.

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

3. Surveillance should precede salutations

4. Pulchritude poses possesses solely coetaneous profundity

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

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

7. The stylus is more potent then the claymore.

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

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'.

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

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

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

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

15. Eleemosynary deeds have their insipience intramurally.

16. Male cadavers are incapable of yielding any testimony.

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

18. Neophyte's serendipity.

19. Exclusive dedication to necessitous chores without interludes of hadonisita diversion renders John a habatudinous fellow.

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

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.















Answers

1. Twinkle, twinkle, little star.

2. Birds of a feather, flock together.

3. Think before you speak.

4. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

5. Don't cry over spilled milk.

6. Cleanliness is next to godliness.

7. The pen is mighter than the sword.

8. You can't teach an old dog new tricks.

9. Spare the rod and spoil the child.

10. A watched pot doesn't boil.

11. All that glitters is not gold.

12. Where there's smoke, there's fire.

13. Beggers can't be choosers.

14. Too many cooks spoil the broth.

15. Good deeds begin at home

16. Dead men tell no tales.

17. People in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.

18. Beginner's luck.

19. All work and no play makes John a dull boy.

20. A rolling stone gathers no moss.

21. He, who laughs last, laughs best.

22. Nothing ventured, nothing gained.

23. Sticks and stones can break my bones, but names can never hurt me.
 
I would love to confuse my friends by using those on them. But there is no way I could remember even one of those. :lol:👍
 
Mike Rotch
14. A plethora of individuals with expertise in culinary techniques vitiate the potable concoctions produced by steeping certain comestibles.

19. Exclusive dedication to necessitous chores without interludes of hadonisita diversion renders John a habatudinous fellow.

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

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

23. Missiles of ligneous or petrous consistency have the potential of racturing my osseous structures but appellations will eternally name innocuous.

Pfft!

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

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

20. A revolving lithic conglomerate accumulates no congeries of a small, green bryophitic plant.

21. A person presenting the ultimate cachinnation possesses thereby the optimal cachinnation.

Anyway... :D

Scintillate, scintillate, globule aurific,
Fain would I fathom thy nature specific,
Loftily poised in the ether capacious,
Strongly resembling a gem carbonaceous.
Scintillate, scintillate, globule aurific,
Fain would I fathom thy nature specific,
 
Scintillate, scintillate, globule aurific,
Fain would I fathom thy nature specific,
Loftily poised in the ether capacious,
Strongly resembling a gem carbonaceous.
Scintillate, scintillate, globule aurific,
Fain would I fathom thy nature specific,

A touché-ism 👍
 
I've composed a few more. No answers - work 'em out! :D


24. Progressing from the cooking vessel to an incendiary location.

25. The visually impaired are not as handicapped as people who ignore ocular data.

26. Misfortunes regularly occur intermediary to a goblet and the labia.

27. Prior to a solar appearance in the morning comes the ultimate depth of shadow.

28. Satan creates pastimes for the dextrally disinclined.

29. Time quickly renders an idiot impecunious.

30. Serendipity is biased towards intrepidity.
 
28. The devil makes work for idle hands?
 
29. A fool and his money are quicly parted.

Did you create these yourself Famine?

Very impressive. You never cease to amaze 👍

*edit*

25. The blind are not as handicapped as those who dont look. Or something like that.
 
26. Misfortunes regularly occur intermediary to a goblet and the labia.


Is this against the aup, or am I confused? :condfused:

Is it something about drinking from the furry cup? :lol:
 
Famine
I've composed a few more. No answers - work 'em out! :D


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.

26. Misfortunes regularly occur intermediary to a goblet and the labia.

27. Prior to a solar appearance in the morning comes the ultimate depth of shadow.
* It's alwasy darkest before dawn

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

29. Time quickly renders an idiot impecunious.
* A fool and his money are soon parted

30. Serendipity is biased towards intrepidity.

So we still need 25, 26 and 30. And no, not THAT labia. Labia is a medical term (derived from the Latin), and can be applied to another part of the body. Like Cervix, which is usually your neck.

And yes, I made 'em up :D
 
TwinTurboJay
You got it kind of backwards,

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

Actually, I did get it right.
Famine has posted it with the given answers.
 
#30 IS "Fortune Favours the Brave"...

But #25 isn't "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder", 'cos that's one of the earlier ones.
 
Famine
26. Misfortunes regularly occur intermediary to a goblet and the labia.
Bad luck usually occurs between a glass and the lips?
 
"There's many a slip twixt cup and lip".

Good enough :D
 
bee-beep-boop-bo-beep-bop.

r2d2 pwns your silly english!

but seriously, those are some hard ones. my problem is that i know the translations but not the sayings...lol.
 
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