ANIMAL IDIOM BRAINTEASERS
If an authority figure is not around, mischief will ensue:
W.T.C.A.T.M.W.P.
When the cat's away, the mice will play
32 green houses,
12 red hotels,
lots of play money
Monopoly
Estimates show that, among humans, 10% of these umbilici are "outies"
Bellybutton
SMH
Shaking my head
According to the National Hot Dog & Sausage Council, topping a wiener with this tomato-y condiment after you turn 18 is a no-no
Ketchup
Don't click on that hyperlink! You could become a victim of this O.G. meme, a bait-&-switch prank involving '80s singer Rick Astley
A rickroll
Sometimes folks get set in their ways & it's difficult to change their habits:
Y.C.T.A.O.D.N.T.
You can't teach an old dog new tricks
Lots of red pegs,
even more white pegs,
10 plastic vessels,
including 2 aircraft carriers
Battleship
Your entire sole is resting on the ground? It's likely you have this condition
Flat feet
NVM
Nevermind
In the U.S., we officially celebrate hot dogs in this month, as nothing says independence like grabbing onto a plump foot-long
July
One of 2023's meme-iest memes was a photo of this "King of Queens" star mischievously shrugging & smirking
People with similar interests tend to gravitate toward each other:
B.O.A.F.F.T.
Birds of a feather flock together
4 racks,
100 tiles
(98 tiles have letters, 2 are blank)
Scrabble
The layman's term for a fontanelle, an area on a newborn baby's head; it's also used to mean "a sentimental weakness
Soft spot
TLDR
Too long, didn't read
Put an all-beef wienie on a poppy seed bun & "drag it through the garden" to make a hot dog in the style of this Midwestern city
Chicago
A purple milkshake honoring the birthday of this McDonald's mascot sparked a wave of parody horror videos that still haunts us
Grimace
You're running around in a frenzied, distracted manner:
L.A.C.W.I.H.C.O.
Color-coded plastic armies,
42 territory cards,
5 dice
Risk
Also called a laryngeal prominence, it's more prominent in males than females
Adam's apple
NGL
Not gonna lie
A man with a dream, Kevin Malone says, "I just wanna lie on the beach & eat hot dogs. That's all I've ever wanted" on this sitcom
The Office
Barbie sparked a beachload of memes in 2023, including one featuring the unlikely question "Do you guys ever think about" this
Trying to solve a problem, you accidentally made it even more complicated...you could say you opened, this:
A.C.O.W.
A can of worms
19 terrain hexes,
60 roads,
1 robber
Catan
Known as the building blocks of proteins, lysine & tryptophan are 2 types of these
Amino acids
WYWH
Wish you were here
In 1916 Polish immigrant Nathan Handwerker got "Famous" selling dogs for a nickel in this Brooklyn neighborhood
Coney Island
This dress-wearing android had us all recreating her trademark hallway dance in 2023--minus the part with all the murdering
M3GAN