Ground beef, a bun, and topping arranged in whatever order a committee once decided was correct
What is Hamburger?
Home to a giant clock tower tourists call by the wrong name and a river that splits the city in two
What is London?
When its raining, animals normally kept as pets are falling from the sky instead of water
What is "its raining cats and dogs"
I have keys but no locks, space but no rooms, you can enter but not go outside
what is a keyboard?
In Spanish, el lagarto means the lizard - sailors shortened and slurred it over time
What is an alligator
Dough Stretched thin, folded around a filling, steamed and later maybe pan fried
What is a dumpling/momo?
Not the city with the Opera House or Harbour Bridge - that's just the famous one. This is the one where the actual government meets
What is Canberra
you are tallying up baby chickens that havent actually emerged from their shells yet which is considered premature and unwise
Dont count your chickens before they hatch
The more you take, the more you leave behind
What are footsteps?
What is tomato?
Egg,cured pork , hard cheese and a sauce that's technically just more egg, tossed with something long and starchy
What is Carbonara?
A city where sinking is a genuine long term concern and where locals get around by boat because roads were never part of the plan
What is Venice?
You are physically shattering a large chunk of frozen water in order to make a social situation less awkward
Breaking the Ice
Im tall when I am young and short when I am old
What is a candle?
The taino people of the carribean had a storm god named Hurakan. Spanish explorers adopted the name for the storms themselves
What is a hurricane?
Raw fish, vinegared rice and seaweed assembled with more structural engineering than flavor complexity would suggest
Built on seven hills, home to a tiny independent country within its city limits that also happens to be the worlds smallest
What is Rome?
A container of live earthworms has been opened unnecessarily, creating much larger and messier problem than originally intended
*Hint any discussions on the Aggregator
What is open a can of worms
What has a face and two hands but no arms and legs
What is a clock?
In Nahuatl, this drink was called xocolatl
What is Chocolate?
A soybean curd,fermented and cultured in more forms than most people realise exist, served in liquid, solid or somewhere unsettling in between
What is a tofu?
What is Amsterdam?
Dont put all your eggs in one basket
I am not alive, but I can grow. I dont have lungs but I need air. I dont have a mouth but water kills me
In Persian, the phrase shah mat means the king is helpless. It passed through Arabic and Old French before landing in English
What is Checkmate?