You've Got Some Nerve
The hypoglossal nerve controls the muscles of this.
Tongue
"If you build it, he will come"
Field of Dreams
While southern Europe embraced this bulb, a late 17th century British discourse on salads spoke of its "intolerable rankness"
Garlic
An expression peculiar to a language or culture, like "a different kettle of fish"
Idiom
If you're part of a ladder company, you're one of these.
Firefighter
Facial nerve fibers help control the lachrymal glands, aka these glands.
Tear
"What would you do if you were stuck in one place and every day was exactly the same?"
Groundhog Day
Washington State's Yakima Valley is the USA's center of producing these, which give beer its distinctive taste.
Hops
An assumed persona, perhaps when undercover
Alias
If your job involves a great deal of bureaucracy, you're one of these, colloquially.
A pencil pusher
The name of this that runs down the middle of your arm is from Latin for "middle"
The median
"Greed, for lack of a better word, is good"
Wall Street
Oil of peppermint is almost half this chemical that flavors cigarettes but can also aid digestion & ease cramps
Menthol
Quotient is a synonym for this, a proportional relationship between 2 quantities.
Ratio
This agent go you sprung from jail prior to trial; you were a no-show, so he got a bounty hunger to chase you down.
A bail bondsman
The shortest of the cranial nerves, it's responsible for your sense of smell.
Olfactory
"You wanna play rough?" Okay, say hello to my little friend"
Scarface
It's an "F"-festival: the Florence type of this herb that tastes like licorice is also called finocchio
Fennel
A brown pigment associated with old photos.
Sepia
This final gatekeeper at a stadium or movie theatre may tear off a stub for the patron.
A ticket taker
"V" shall see if you can identify this nerve that runs from your brain to your abdomen & controls many bodily functions.
Vagus
"You may keep one of your children. The other one must go"
Sophie's Choice
Eating one seed from the castor bean can be fatal due to the presence of this blood-clumping toxin.
Ricin
The central administration of the Catholic church in Rome.
A curia
On 1970s sitcoms Schneider & Bookman were building superintendents, also known as these.
Maintenance Men