Idioms
What is the meaning of "killing time?"
What is "wasting time?" (Similar answers will be accepted.)
Authors, including Norton Juster, use this to add humor and confusion.
What is wordplay?
What was melting in The Persistence of Memory?
What are clocks?
1. An animal that hibernates during winter.
2. Lacking or without a natural or appropriate covering or clothing.
What is 'bear' and 'bare?'
In Chapter 1, Milo thought the process of seeking this was the 'greatest waste of time of all.'
What is knowledge?
This idiom means you are thinking hard, or Milo's car did this once Tock got into the car.
What is "the wheels began to turn?"
Low energy? You might have this. But be sure not to step on the similarly named small creatures while visiting the Doldrums.
What is lethargy?
What are ants?
1. An organ used to see the world from.
2. A pronoun used to refer to yourself.
What is 'eye' and 'I?'
The package containing the tollbooth, signs, map, coins, and a book of rules also had an envelope attached on the outside of it that was brightly colored in this color.
What is blue?
An idiom that means it is raining hard in the canine or feline variety.
What is "raining cats and dogs?"
Milo in the Lands Beyond. Alice in Wonderland. Many characters travel to strange, abnormal, or ________ settings in fantasy novels. What is the missing synonym?
What is peculiar?
This word describes the way items and objects are placed next to each other in a work of art.
What is juxtaposition?
1. A verb meaning to exist.
2. A large meeting.
3. An insect that produces honey.
What are 'be' and 'bee' (two different definitions of bee, ex: quilting bee and honeybee)?
The Whether Man released a dozen of these into the air to determine which way the wind was blowing when Milo was in Expectations.
What is balloons?
In talking with Milo in the Word Market, one of the king's advisors asked Milo if THIS also grew on trees. (Norton Juster used more wordplay with this idiom!)
What is "money?" (As in, money doesn't grow on trees.)
Not only is this a character from The Phantom Tollbooth, but this is also part of a famous saying used by Ebenezer Scrooge in A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens.
What is humbug?
Two candlesticks. One mirror. However, one of these was missing from one of the candlesticks in Time Transfixed.
What is a reflection?
1. A foot appendage.
2. To pull along.
What is 'toe' and 'tow?'
The snapshot of this land described this setting as gray, monotonous, and quiet when Milo got trapped HERE by not thinking and paying attention.
What is the Doldrums?
Coughing? Sore throat? Runny nose? You might be coming down with this idiom.
What is "to catch a cold?"
Consult a publication by Merriam-Webster to pick out which word you would like to use. The process of choosing words is known as what?
What is diction?
The year in which Time Transfixed was painted in oil on canvas.
What is 1938?
1. A powder made by grinding raw grains.
2. A part of a plant also known as a bloom or blossom.
What is 'flour' and 'flower?'
Who is George Washington? (Or George Washington Humbug, as the Humbug claims in the story.)