Phrases
This phrase is used when someone is trying to do two contradicting things at once; the saying has to do with dessert
What is have your cake and eat it too?
What is barter?
Football fans know it sits at the mouth of Wisconsin's Fox River
What is Green Bay?
It was inspired by a 1621 harvest feast
What is Thanksgiving?
To invent a new word or phrase is to do this--makes cents
What is to coin?
In reinforced concrete, it's what does the reinforcing
What is rebar?
The Alpini were Italian soldiers in WWI who specialized in this type of terrain
What are mountains?
To experience something personal, you experience it this way
What is firsthand?
This phrase sounds violent but just means to take care of two tasks with one action
What is kill two birds with one stone?
You eat the red stalks of this plant; the green leaves are toxic
What is rhubarb?
Parlez-vous Francais? Then name this Louisiana city at the head of the Mississippi's deepwater navigation
What is Baton Rouge?
It's handy to put facilities for this gasoline additive right in fields of the Midwestern corn it's made from
What is ethanol?
This fruit saying is used when someone is your soulmate or loved very much
What is apple of my eye?
A decompression chamber can also be called this kind of chamber
What is a hyperbaric chamber?
A blood disease may have caused the madness of this king, & in 1811 his son assumed his duties
Who is King George III?
A sea monster is usually described as this size
What is leviathan?
Break a leg is saying used in theater, and this is the reason why it's used
What is "because you'll be in a cast"?
Tanzania gets part of its name from this island
What is zanzibar?
In 1954 Marilyn Monroe singled, divorcing this Yankee after 9 months of wedded non-bliss
Who is Joe DiMaggio?
This gum is used for gluten free cooking
What is Xanthan?