Word and Phrase Origins
This 3-letter verb meaning to ask for alms dates back to a medieval religious order
Beg
The name of this dance is from German for "revolve"
the waltz
In parts of the South, bapsousing means to do this by dunking
baptizing
As the old saying goes, this city "wasn't built in a day"
Rome
A proverb says, "A nod is as good as" one of these "to a blind horse"
a wink
New crew members on a ship needed to quickly figure these out--knowing them now means to understand how to do something
the ropes
To twist a wet towel to extract all the moisture
wring
In some places you ditch or skip; in Utah sluff is what you do if you don't go to this
school
In 2016 a state of emergency was declared over lead contamination in this Michigan city's water
Flint
The presidential oath of office: "preserve, protect and" this verb "the Constitution of the United States"
defend
This psych term means a persistent idea--it once meant control by demons outside you, the opposite of possession
obsession
An edible grass in the genus Triticum
wheat
A big-in-Wisconsin alternative to "yard sale" or "garage sale", it implies that you pick through the offerings
rummage sale
This city on the French Riviera has been hosting its famous film festival for over 70 years
Cannes
This word follows "legal" on the obverse of a dollar bill
tender
In 1915 the British military deceptively called a prototype a "water carrier", leading to this name
tank
I can see it in your eyes when you do this, to flinch in pain
wince
In the Plains states, a black blizzard was one of these storms
a dust storm
Hanseong & Gyeongseong are former names of this world capital
Seoul
Henry Traute of the Diamond Match Co. came up with this 4-word phrase that begins with "close cover", printed billions of times
before striking
One theory is that this ordinal term for harsh police questioning was a pun based on the name of an Officer Byrnes
the third degree
Roger, I heard your radio message & I'll use this combination of 2 words to indicate I'll do what you asked
wilco
Folks in Portland, Oregon may not go to the beach or to the shore but to this--presumably the left one
the coast
A huge Reformation monument stands in this city where Martin Luther stood before the diet in 1521
Worms
Hamlet ponders taking up "arms against a sea of" these
troubles