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| How to sound smart and annoy your friends |
| Just say these "common proverbs" with the big fancy words and your friends will think you're either a genius or dyslexic. |
| 1. Scintillate, scintillate miniature celestial luminary
AKA: Twinkle twinkle little star 2. Members of an avian species of identical plumage congregate AKA: Birds of a feather flock together 3. Surveillance should precede saltation AKA: look before you leap 4. The temperature of the aqueous contents of an unremittingly ogled cooking utensil does not reach 212 degrees Fahrenheit AKA: a watched pot never boils 5. Freedom from incrustations of grime is contiguous to spritual righteousness. AKA: cleanliness is next to godliness 6. Sorting done by mendicants must be interdicted AKA: beggars can't be choosers 7. All articles that coruscate with resplendence are not aurum AKA: all that glitters is not gold 8. A revolving lithic conglomerate accumulates no congeries of a miniscule, verdant bryophytic plant AKA: a rolling stone gathers no moss 9. Neophytes' serendipity AKA: beginners luck 10. Male cadavers are incapable of yielding any testimony AKA: dead men tell no tales 11. It is fruitless to attempt to indoctrinate a superannuated canine with innovative maneuvers AKA: you can't teach an old dog new tricks 12. Individuals who make their abode in vitreous edifices would be advised to refrain from catapulting petrous projectiles AKA: people who live in glass houses should not throw stones 13. A buffoon and his accumulation of legal tender are expeditiously disunited AKA: a fool and his gold are soon parted 14. Desist from enumerating your fowl prior to their emergence from teh prenatal ovoid structure AKA: don't count your chickens before they hatch 15. The person presenting the ultimate cachinnation possesses thereby the optimal cachinnation AKA: he who laughs last, laughs best 16. Exigency is the matriarch of ingenious contrivance AKA: necessity is the mother of invention 17. Upon the nonpresence of the domestic Felis catus, the Mus museuli proceed to engage in sportive capers AKA: when the cat's away, the mice will play 18. It is practicable to entice an Equus caballas to a reservoir of liguid hydrogen oxide, but coercing him to imbibe is insuperable AKA: you can lead a horse to water but you can't make him drink 19. Exclusive dedication ot vocational activities uninterrupted by interludes of hedonistic diversion renders John a hebetudinous immature male AKA: all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy 20. A plethora of individuals with expertise in culinary techniques vitiate the potable concoction produced by steeping certain comestibles AKA: too many cooks spoil the broth |