WORDS THAT SHOULD RHYME
(Alex: ...but don't. I'll give you an example: silo and kilo.)
(Alex: ...but don't. I'll give you an example: silo and kilo.)
A female offspring & a sound of mirth
daughter and laughter
It's the opposite of rewind
fast forward
Songs by both Emmylou Harris & Todd Rundgren instruct "bang" this instrument (slowly for her, all day for him)
the drum
At Canter's Deli in L.A., it's the traditional cheese for a Reuben sandwich
swiss
Before anesthesia, surgeons asked patients to do this, clamp down on a projectile
bite the bullet
A small pigeon & a kitchen range
dove/stove
The major navigable waters of the world are numerically referred to as these
seven seas
In a song from "The Music Man", these "led the big parade
76 trombones
The name of this dish in which cubes of bread are dipped into a pot of melted cheese is French for "melted"
fondue
This phrase meaning to act before the proper time refers to a false start
jumping the gun
Half a quart & a small piece of fiber that comes off clothing
pint/lint
Idiom meaning no longer existing, like that extinct bird from Mauritius
dead as a dodo
Billy Joel based this song on his experience playing at an L.A. bar called The Executive Room
piano man
Sort of a blue Brie, Germany's Cambozola cheese gets its name from Camembert & this cheese
gorgonzola
A piece of artillery aboard a ship that comes untied & rolls around on deck gave us this term for a dangerous person
a loose cannon
A muscle pain & a Native American people of Arizona
ache/apache
Popular royals Charlotte Augusta, Mary, Duchess of Teck & Diana of Wales were each called this
the peoples princess
"Hey" this person, "play a song for me; I'm not sleepy and there is no place I'm going to"
mr. tamborine man
Let's go Dutch with a hunk of this 5-letter cheese
gouda
You don't want to "go off" this way; it refers to a safety mechanism to prevent accidental firing
half-cocked
To hang around after others leave & a pungent root used in Asian cooking
linger/ginger
This phrase meaning one couldn't be happier goes back to an old puppet
pleased as a punch
George Harrison wanted to get the "crying" effect without using a wah-wah pedal for this 1968 Beatles song
while my guitar gently weeps
More a thick cream than a cheese, this slightly sweet Italian staple traditionally fills the layers in tiramisu
mascarpone
Today meaning a short-lived success, it refers to a misfire in a flintlock's powder
flash in a pan