Finish the Proverb
Idioms
Common Abbreviations
Phobias
Ending in archy or cracy
100

Absence makes the heart

grow fonder

100

(To) burn the midnight oil

To stay up late

100

abbr.

abbreviation

100

Acousticophobia

Sound

100

Lack of rule, having no government

Anarchy

200

All for one

and one for all (motto of Alexander Dumas’ novel The Three Musketeers).

200

Apple of one’s eye

Someone considered to be very special

200

approx

approximately

200

Agoraphobia

Open spaces

200

 The people

Democracy

300

All roads lead

to Rome

300

Between a rock and hard place

Between two equally dangerous or difficult choices (between the devil and the deep blue sea has a similar meaning)

300

mtn

mountain

300

Anthropophobia

people

300

 Women

Gynarchy

400

Don’t put the cart

before the horse.

400

(To) blow hot and cold.

To favor something and then to oppose it

400

mdse

merchandise

400

Ombrophobia

Rain

400
the military

Stratocracy

500

Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day;

teach him how to catch fish, and you feed him for a lifetime.

500

Can’t hit the broad side of a barn

To have poor aim
500

mss

manuscripts

500

Logophobia

Speaking

500

the mob

Ochlocracy