Familiar Phrases
To start from the beginning, or make a cake without a mix.
What is from scratch?
She never bothers removing the price tag from her hat.
Who is Minnie Pearl?
At Nagasaki, recordable amounts of this will remain for over 24,000 years.
What is radiation?
Author who wrote, “A whale ship was my Yale College & my Harvard”.
Who was Herman Melville?
This “year ‘round” group sold 180,000 copies of “Sherry” in 1 day.
Who are the Four Seasons?
According renowned gourmet Brillat-Savarin, “you are” this.
What is what you eat?
Country music style, often about adultery, divorce, or drunkenness, is named for these sleazy bars.
What is a honky tonk?
This pipe-chewing general was a distant cousin to both Churchill & Roosevelt.
Who was (General Douglas) MacArthur?
He wrote an open letter to the French president which began “J’accuse”- I accuse.
Who was Emile Zola?
1970s group whose name comes from Aboriginal custom of sleeping with canines when it’s cold.
Who are the Three Dog Night?
To judge a man by his manner or dress comes from this term used to identify oncoming sailing ships.
What is by the cut of his jib?
These 2 country stars named their daughter Tamala Georgette.
Who is George Jones & Tammy Wynette?
According to Eisenhower, the bazooka, DC-3, A-bomb, & this vehicle won the war.
What is a jeep?
His “Uncle Remus” told of “a contrapshun what he call a tar-baby”.
Who was Joel Chandler Harris?
Creator of “Elephant Parts”, in 1969, he “Monkeed” around in Linda Ronstadt’s back-up band.
Who is Mike Nesmith?
To show public support during a candidate’s parade, folks did this as the music passed by.
What is jumped on the bandwagon?
This former Bible salesman’s hits include “Whiskey River” & “Yesterday’s Wine”.
Who is Willie Nelson?
On Dec. 11, 1941, these 2 countries declared war on the U.S.
What are Germany & Italy?
Titles of his many books about different parts of the world began with the word “inside”.
Who was (John) Gunther?
Donovan said these 2 comic book characters “ain’t got nuthin’ on me”.
Who are Superman & Green Lantern?
This phrase for disorientation comes from old dice game where only “unstable” people tried to roll a 13.
What is being at sixes and sevens?
She met her husband Carl Dean at the Wishy-Washy Laundromat on her first day in Nashville in 1964.
Who is Dolly Parton?
20,000 Russian guns opened fire on this city in April of 1945.
What is Berlin?
At the N.Y. customs house, Oscar Wilde asserted the had nothing to declare but this.
What is his genius?
This Parisian group’s “Pretty Ballerina” became a hit after Leonard Bernstein played it on TV.
What is “The Left Banke”?