YOU'LL EAT THOSE WORDS
GETTING DOWN TO BUSINESS
WORD "OR"IGINS
3-WORD PHRASES
FANGS A LOT!
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Stick your tongue out & exhale sharply to make this fruity sound of disapproval

raspberyy

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In 2014 this aerospace company said it was moving 400 jobs from Washington to Alabama to save $100 million

boeing

200

It's from the Latin for "public speaker" & that's what it means

orator

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When you lavishly entertain a prospective client, you do this rhyming phrase, perhaps with Merlot & steak

wine and dine

200

You can get custom designer fangs of this classic lit character for $19.99 at Party City, just like the author intended

dracula

400

In "Rebel Without a Cause", James Dean & a rival play this in speeding cars, with unfortunate results

chicken

400

We'll pledge $400 to you if you can name this site that went live on April 28, 2009 & takes 5% of successfully funded projects

kickstarter

400

This astronomical word circled into English in 1649

orbit

400

When you have 2 unpleasant options, someone might tell you to do this, which sounds like one could be strychnine

pick your poison

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The body of this crawler is composed of around 15 to 180 segments, each with a pair of legs, the first pair modified into poison fangs

centipede

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Controlled 360-degree spins in a car

doughnuts

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LiMu is an insurance-selling emu for this company that's very, very, very unafraid to repeat its name at the end of its ads

liberty mutual

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When it first showed up in English, it was defined as "the stalls or sitting places, where many may sit"--no mention of violins & cellos

orchestra


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An Obama rallying cry for Spanish-speaking potential voters was "Si, Se Puede", this in English

yes, we can

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A type of this snake is rightly called spitting--its fangs are shaped to send poison flying

cobra

800

A baseball brouhaha is also known as this edible pie plant

rhubarb

800

As tires weren't colored black until 1912, Bibendum, the now-123-year-old mascot of this company, is white

Michelin

800

This verb meaning to induct someone into the ministry debuted in a medieval biography of Thomas Becket

ordain

800

When Picard wanted something to happen quickly on "Star Trek: The Next Generation" he often said this

make it so

800

This fanged monster whose name is Spanish for "goat-sucker" was first "sighted" in 1995 (though after a scary movie)

chupacabra

1000

A 1930s guide to underworld lingo provides the first known written use of this baked product as slang for money

bread

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In 2020 our Sec. of State danced around banning this app from Beijing; the problem? It had been downloaded more than 2 billion times

TikTok

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A branch of study, it first appeared in an 18th century work by a British bird love

ornithology

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If you do this you're either literally handing a dollar bill to someone, or shifting responsibility

pass the buck

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The protruding fangs of this mortal Gorgon known for her stone-cold gaze weren't even the most terrifying thing about her

Medusa

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