To learn these, meaning to get the basics down, originally applied to new sailors
What are the Ropes?
In a 2019 Super Bowl ad, we learned about the corn syrup policy of Bud Light, Miller Lite & this Colorado light
What is Coors (Light)?
Let's have a Carnival on this, literally "fat Tuesday"
What is Mardi Gras?
It's from the Latin for "careful" but it's what "killed the cat" who wasn't careful enough
What is Curiosity?
In the 1890s Dmitri Ivanovsky discovered these infectious little organisms, from the Latin for "poison"
What is a Virus?
Management consultant Marilyn Loden says she coined this phrase for a barrier to female success in 1978
These bitter buds added for flavor belong to the Cannabaceae family, making them a cousin of marijuana
What is Hops (Hemp Accepted)?
Catalina Island has an 18-hole course for this
What is Mini Golf?
To appear bedraggled is to look like something that arrived this way
What is Like something the Cat Dragged In?
By replacing the boiling of cane juice with vacuum refining, Norbert Rillieux turned this from a luxury to a common table item
What is Sugar?
To set higher standards for ourselves, we're doing this, the opposite of what happens in a limbo competition
What is Raising The Bar?
Instead of only using barley, Weissbier adds this grain into the mix
What is Wheat?
These stocky ruminants have muscular legs & broad hooves, making them surefooted climbers
What is Mountain Goats?
If a secret has been exposed, it's where "the cat" is
What is Out of the Bag?
Joseph Gliddens' invention of this, which made it easy to enclose livestock, helped end the era of the big cattle drive
What is Barbed Wire?
Gone into business for yourself? You've hung out this signboard, also a word for a roofing item
What is a Shingle?
Because it contains this natural type of alcohol, an antimicrobial, beer can be safer to drink than suspect water
What is Ethanol?
A song from "The Pirates of Penzance" says, "In matters vegetable, animal, & mineral, I am the very model of a modern"
What is Major-General?
A fleeting rise in a stock's price after a fall is this type of "bounce"
What is a Dead Cat?
In the 1830s a Frenchman discovered how to preserve an image on a plate, inventing this "type" of old-timey photo
Be assertive! Do this 6-word phrase like Hercules did to that bovine on Crete
What is Take the Bull by the Horns?
The 1st brewers may have been this Mesopotamian people c. 6000 B.C.; they even had a goddess of beer, Ninkasi
Who are the Sumerians?
It's the climbing vine seen here 
What is Morning Glory?
Act assertively! "A cat in gloves" has this inability
What is a Cat in Gloves Catches No Mice?
In the 1950s researchers discovered that progestin could prevent ovulation, leading to the 1960 introduction of this
What is The Birth Control Pill?