In class, we were given the following list of colloquialisms and we had to figure out what the actual colloquialism was in everyday English.
See how you do with them…
- Pulchritude possesses solely cutaneous profundity.
- Scintillate, scintillate, asteroid minific.
- Members of an avian species of identical plumage congregate.
- Surveillance should precede saltation.
- It is fruitless to become lacrymous over precipitately lacteal fluid.
- Freedom from incrustations of grime is contiguous to divinity.
- The stylus is more potent than the scimitar.
- It is fruitless to attempt to indoctrinate a superannuated canine with innovative maneuvers.
- Eschew the implement of correction and vitiate the scion.
- The temperature of the aqueous content of an unremittingly ogled cooking container does not reach 212 degrees Fahrenheit.
- Neophyte’s serendipity.
- Male cadavers are incapable of yielding any testimony.
- Individuals who make their abode in vitreous edifices would be advised to refrain from catapulting projectiles.
- All articles that coruscate with resplendence are not truly auriferous.
- Where there are visible vapors having their province in ignited carbonaceous material, there is conflagration.
- Sorting on the part of mendicants must be interdicted.
- A plethora of individuals with expertise in culinary techniques vitiates the potable concoction produced by steeping comestibles.
- Exclusive dedication to necessary chores without interludes of hedonistic diversion renders Jack a hepetudinous fellow.
- A revolving lathic conglomerate accumulates no diminutive glaucous bryophitic plants.
- The person representing the ultimate cachinnation possesses, thereby, the optimal cachinnation.
- Missiles of ligneous consistency have the potential of fracturing my osseous structure of appellations will eternally be benign.
I’ll post the answers tomorrow evening sometime. :-)
