THE DYE IS CAST
This DIY craft with a rhyming name uses rubber bands & usually transforms a white T-shirt
tie-dye
"Captain Nemo looked at me. I asked him no questions, but he guessed my thoughts"
Jules Verne
In 1956 the winner took home the prize with this word for an apartment that you buy rather than lease
condominium
Tense situations can be resolved when these prevail
cooler heads
According to the old rhyme, "step on a crack", this happens; wishing her a speedy recovery!
break your mother's back
A company called Dye makes guns called markers for this game where getting "shot" might cause more surprise than pain
paintball
"'What a pity it is, Elinor,' said Marianne, 'that Edward should have no taste for drawing'"
Jane Austen
The winning word in 1986 was odontalgia, or what we commonly call this--ow!
a toothache
A twist on this old simile that changes the meaning is "last night I" did this--"I woke up every 2 hours & cried"
slept like a baby
To ensure a happy marriage, a bride on her wedding day traditionally incorporates these 4 things, in a little rhyme
something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue
Also known as mehndi, this plant is used to make dye for temporary tattoos that can last up to 3 weeks
henna
"The sporting editors had also given me $300 in cash, most of which was already spent on extremely dangerous drugs"
Hunter S. Thompson
Future "Teen Jeopardy!" champ Amanda Goad won the Bee with this word, Aristotle's school, or a hall for public lectures
lyceum
From the snowy slopes, if you "get out over" these, you've acted hastily or prematurely
your skis
Friggatriskaidekaphobia is one name for the fear of this, which occurs one to 3 times a year
Friday the 13th
The colors in this Hindu festival can be in water form, poured from buckets or squirted from water guns
Holi
"Ask again yes and then he asked me would I yes to say yes my mountain flower and first I put my arms around him yes"
Joyce
From Greek for "word" & "flow", this noun meaning pathologically excessive speech was the winning word in 1999
logorrhea
A play that dramatically shifts the fortunes in a sporting contest, or a strategy that radically alters the course of a business
a game changer
In a theater it's bad luck to say the name of this play, so actors simply refer to it as "the Scottish play"
Macbeth
Discovered by British chemist William Perkin, the first successful synthetic dye was this purple named for the mallow plant
mauve
"Your threats... confirm me in a determination of not creating you a companion in vice. Shall I... set loose... a daemon"?
Mary Shelley
No joke & no yolk, this white part of an egg was 1930's winning word
albumen
A word that implies more in a sentence than it plainly says is "doing" this--hope it doesn't injure its back
some heavy lifting
According to tradition, the Tower of London must have 6 of these birds in residence or the Tower & the crown will fall
ravens