Double Consonant Words
Pattern Recognition
Rhymes with Mug
What Do Your Shoes Mean
Familiar Phrases
Oops On Stamps
100
One who can give a firsthand account
a witness
100
Yankee fans know the lines on this uniform fabric pattern can be 1/16" or 3/32" wide
pinstripes
100
An often shameless promotion of a product or one's self
a plug
100
A diminutive of the Italian word for "dagger" gives us the name of these heels
a stiletto
100
Someone angry about a past event might be balancing a "chip" here
their shoulder
100
A 2007 stamp from Papua New Guinea misspelled this word, the inability to read (there was only one "L")
illiteracy
200
An invalidation of a marriage
an annulment
200
If you like these little solid circles, visit the Tokyo Museum of Yayoi Kusama, the queen of them
polka dots
200
The tightly curled tail of this toy dog breed lies over the hip
a pug
200
A laced shoe as well as a shirting fabric is named for this British university town
Oxford
200
Plans may not work out, so "don't" practice this act of poultry accounting
don't count your chickens before they're hatched
200
A stamp had this big landmark; not the original in N.Y. Harbor, but the lady in front of Vegas' New York-New York casino
the Statue of Liberty
300
A period away from a job or school, perhaps every 7 years
a sabbatical
300
The type of symbol seen here is the Persian boteh; it is repeated in this pattern named for a Scottish town
Paisley
300
Cymbalta, for example
a drug
300
A girl in the Buster Brown comic strip gave her name to these girls' shoes that have a strap over the instep
Mary Janes
300
To "throw someone under" this vehicle is to make him a scapegoat
the bus
300
On the stamp seen here, Monaco "oops"ed by putting 5 fingers & a thumb, too, on this New Deal U.S. president
Franklin D. Roosevelt
400
Monetary donation during a church service
an offering
400
The motifs in quatrefoil designs have 4 of these
leaves
400
Back in Grandma's day, dancing was also known as "cutting" this
a rug
400
A word for a type of rope gives us the name of these rope-soled sandals
espadrille
400
Trying again after a failure is going "back to" this, a synonym for drafting table or an item on a drafting table
a drawing board
400
A 1932 Philippine stamp honored Pagsanjan Falls but showed Vernal Falls in this California national park
Yosemite
500
North Atlantic native seen here
a haddock
500
This word for a white& color checked pattern comes from a Malay word
gingham
500
Counterfeit vending machine "coin"
a slug
500
Queen Victoria's Scottish castle is the source of the name of this laced shoe
Balmoral
500
A possible origin for "living" this way is that uppercuts of pork are more a luxury item than the feet
high on the hog
500
A 1968 Chinese stamp, "The Whole Country is Red", did not red out this island, & the authorities soon recalled it
Taiwan