5 For the Road
The road to hell is proverbially paved with these, but that doesn't mean you shouldn't try to be nice
good intentions
This secretion is slang for a person's unwanted concern, as in "none of your..."
beeswax
In song, it was used to describe an arachnid making its way up a drainage pipe
itsy-bitsy
Stylishly showy, or in song, what is done "through the snow"
dashing
A seesaw is an example of this simple machine, which is just a long beam on a fulcrum
a lever
Now an idiom for any sort of adventurous path, this colorful route in a 1900 novel was "very uneven" at times
The Yellow Brick Road
Adjective meaning curved or bowed outward
convex
It's a planned function where someone famous is introduced to & socializes with audience members
meet & greet
To go forward, perhaps to the next playoff series; a kid may plead to get one on their allowance
an advance
One book in the "Fold & Fly" series teaches how to make these; a 2007 M.I.A. song is named for them
paper planes
Ray Charles started off a song with these 4 words; now it means scram!
Hit the road, Jack
This four-letter gemstone is composed of silica minerals, and is typically formed in solid black.
onyx
Definitions of this include a country at war, a new night club, a good place for Wi-Fi
a hot spot
In South Africa, to travel by ox wagon; in space, to travel by enterprise
to trek
During World War I Edith Wilson had a flock of these on the White House lawns--to cut the grass
sheep
A child's game fronts this phrase used in politics for postponing a needed action
to kick the can down the road
The little hat worn by French words like hôtel & hôpital is called this
circumflex
This bit of advice could be translated as "pretend to be successful until you become so"
fake it til you make it
Check my this as I lyrically not satirically lay it out empirically; it pairs with ebb to denote regular change
flow
The original cover for The Rolling Stones album "Sticky Fingers" came with a functioning one of these fasteners
a zipper
You may have an enlightening moment on the "road to" this city, like Saul did in the Bible
Damascus
It's the collective name for a flower's sepals
calyx
A police helicopter providing surveillance is idiomatically one of these & doesn't need to blink either
eye in the sky
Let's hurry around the city to find this same-named part of an old-fashioned skirt
a bustle
A French word for "hook" gives us the name of this craft that uses a hooked needle
crochet