Idioms and Expressions
Also a fishing term
13
A word from your doctor
A Date in History
100

This object can complete a lot of idioms.. it can be in your court, you could drop it, or you could be on it.

Ball

100

Just scoop ice cream on root beer for this type of beverage

Float

100

There were 13 guests in attendance at this biblical event, perhaps where the idea of 13 being unlucky came from 

The Last Supper

100

When I ask if you have this kind of pain, I mean is it sharp or sudden, not from an angle of less than 90 degrees 

acute

100

After this couple's first date in 1894, she went home to Poland while he wrote her letters about his "dream for science"

Marie Curie & Pierre Curie

200

Someone of unappealing visage is said to have "a face for" this medium; Fred Allen said it of himself

radio

200

Serling or Steiger

Rod

200

friggatriskaidekaphobia or paraskevidekatriaphobia is the fear of this...

Friday the 13th

200

I'm afraid you've broken a brachial bone, brachial meaning a part of this body part

your arm

200

In Tarsus in 41 B.C. Cleopatra wooed this beefy Roman by arriving to a date dressed as Venus

Marc Antony

300

You'll find the French word for "beautiful" in this phrase for the most attractive person in a given setting

belle of the ball

300

"A well-known conjecture is that" this friendly word "was a familiar abbreviation of chamber-fellow"

chum

300
This practice in hotels is still common, owing to the phobia around the number 13

Skipping floor 13

300

I've got one of these forecasts for you, from Greek for "prediction"

prognosis

300

In the summer of 1989, this not-yet-famous couple went on a movie date in Chicago & saw a Spike Lee film

the Obamas

400

In a sporty idiom, to make expectations higher is to do this, from field events like the pole vault

raise the bar

400

This baseball pitch gets batters to hit a lot of ground balls

a sinker

400

The master of suspense was born on August 13, 1899 - He made his directorial debut in 1922 with a movie called Number 13.

Alfred Hitchcock

400

When I say this is "thready", I mean it's barely perceptible under my finger

a pulse

400

On one of this duo's early dates in 1930, he crashed on her couch & in the morning, the Dallas police arrested him

Bonnie & Clyde

500

This 2-part phrase meaning "completely settled" could be the name of a salon

Cut and dried

500

In computing, it's an acronym for a transfer of data to a temporary storage area

a spool(ing)

500

The star of the Friday the 13th movies,  one of the highest-grossing films of all time 

Jason Voorhees

500

I need to examine your ear--hold on while I grab this doohickey with a handle & a light that lets me look inside

an otoscope

500

A tale of a medieval hookup: this pair met in Paris around 1115, had a son, but lived on separated as monk & nun

Abelard & Héloïse

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