3-Word Phrases
Sports Stuff
Turkey Day
-Ology
One Good "Turn"
100

Our low-stakes relationship is strictly NSA, this

No strings attached

100

The deuce, the hook & Uncle Charlie are baseball slang for this type of breaking pitch

Curveball

100

A symbol of Turkey since Ottoman times, this flower has inspired decorative motifs on carpets, clothing & ceramics

Tulip

100

Im a Gemini! This "scientific" discipline seeks to divine one's future by analyzing the constellations they were born under

Astrology

100

A recession is a prolonged one of these, a reduction in economic activity

Downturn

200

The Atlantic gets a lot smaller in this phrase meaning over in America to a Brit, or vice versa

Across the Pond

200

Any castaway knows this brand makes the NCAA official beach championship game volleyball

Wilson

200

Yagli gures, one of the most popular sports in Turkey, is a variety of this one, but with the grapplers covered in oil

Wrestling

200

The first 3 letters are an abbreviation some have discarded, but this is still the study of flying saucers & the like

UFOlogy

200

Drop-arm, swing gate & tripod are types of these barriers often seen at subway or fair entrances

Turnstile

300

An uneasy accord has been reached when you do this rhyming phrase, politely let go of a dispute without resolution (you're still wrong)

Agree to Disagree

300

Muhammad Ali KOed George Foreman in the 1974 fight called "The Rumble in" this

the Jungle

300

Producing more than 70% of the world's supply, Turkey is the world's largest grower of these nuts, aka filberts

Hazelnuts

300

The study of folklore or stories shared by a specific group of people is called this

Mythology

300

As in the song "Closing Time", it's what bars do "over every boy and every girl" around last call

Turn the lights on

400

To pine for someone, or more literally, to participate in a pre-Olympics ceremony

Carry a Torch

400

In cricket, the only defensive player who wears gloves is the guy in charge of keeping this vital thing

the Wicket

400

A talisman of concentric circles made with molten glass, a nazar  boncuğu is a Turkish amulet used for protection against this negative force

Evil Eye

400

Robert L. Kelly is co-author of a standard text on this subject, though he is still less famous than his fictional contemporary, professor Indiana Jones

Archaeology

400

Usually for piano, it's a short, dreamy composition suggestive of the evening

Nocturne

500

It means doing everything right, or getting a hit every time up, though the math doesn't strictly work on that last one

Batting a thousand / Batting one thousand

500

In 2014, 260 years after its founding, this legendary golf club finally agreed to accept female members

St. Andrews

500

Before Turkey's largest city was renamed Istanbul, it was Constantinople & just before that, known as this

Byzantium

500

King James I of England published a guide to witchcraft & devilry titled this "-ology"

Demonology

500

This adjective for one of few words is from Latin for "silence"

Taciturn

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