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Proverbs in Pleonastic Language

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Last Updated On: 21 December, 2005


Common proverbs have been recast in rather pleonastic language (do you know what pleonastic means?). Determine the underlying proverb in each case.

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  1. Persons of imbecilic mentality navigate in parameters which cherubic entities approach with trepidation.

  2. Elementary sartorial techniques initially applied preculde repetitive similar action to square of three.

  3. Apostatize degrees of antagonism to banish awareness of the specified interval of time.

  4. Alacrity assembles prodigality.

  5. Prepotency eludes the chicane.

  6. One diminutive yielding cupuled nut, the prodigious quercus stems forth.

  7. An esteemed paramour is effortless forfeit rather than brought into being.

The complete collection

  1. It is futile to attempt to indoctrinate a superannuated canine with innovative maneuvers.

  2. Surveillance should precede saltation.

  3. One should hyperaesthetically exercise macroscopy upon that situs which one will eventually tenant if one propels oneself into the troposphere.

  4. The temperature of the aqueous content of an unremittingly ogled saucepan does not reach 100 degrees Celsius.

  5. All articles that coruscate with resplendence are not truly auriferous.

  6. Everything that coruscates with effulgence is not aurous.

  7. Pulchritude possesses solely cutaneous profundity.

  8. Freedom from incrustations of grime is contiguous to rectitude.

  9. Individuals who make their abode in vitreous edifices would be advised to refrain from catapulting petrous projectiles.

  10. Individuals who perforce are constrained to be domiciled in vitreous structures of patent frangibility should on no account employ petrous formations as projectiles.

  11. The stylus is more potent than the claymore.

  12. Exclusive dedication to necessitous chores without interludes of hedonistic diversion renders Jack a hebetudinous fellow.

  13. Members of an avian species of identical plumage congregate.

  14. Where there are visible vapors in ignited carbonaceous materials, there is conflagration.

  15. A plethora of individuals with expertise in culinary techniques vitiate the potable concoction produced by steeping certain comestibles.

  16. A superabundance of talent skilled in the preparation of gastronomic concoctions will impair the quality of a certain potable solution made by immersing a gallinaceous bird in ebullient Adam’s ale.

  17. Selecting on the part of mendicants must be interdicted.

  18. Eleemosynary deeds have their incipience intramurally.

  19. The person presenting the ultimate cachinnation possesses thereby the optimal cachinnation.

  20. Abstention from any aleatory undertakings precludes a potential escalation of lucrative nature.

  21. Missiles of ligneous or petrous consistency have the potential of fracturing my osseous structure, but appellations will eternally remain innocuous.

  22. It is fruitless to become lachrymose over precipitately departed lacteal fluid.

  23. Male cadavers are incapable of yielding any testimony.

  24. Eschew the implement of correction and vitiate the scion.

  25. A revolving lithic conglomerate accumulates no congeries of a small, green bryophitic plant.

  26. Neophyte's serendipity.

  27. That prudent avis which matutinally deserts the cosiness of its abode will ensnare a vermiculate creature.

  28. Do not dissipate your competence by hebetudinous prodigality lest you subsequently lament an exiguous inadequacy.

  29. An addlepated bonehead and his specie divaricate with startling prematurity.

  30. It can be no other than a maleficent horizontally propelled current of gaseous matter whose portentous advent is not the harbinger of a modicum of beneficence.

  31. Aberration is the hallmark of homosapiens, while longanimous placability and condonation are the indicia of supramundane omniscience.

  32. Persons of imbecilic mentality navigate in parameters which cherubic entities approach with trepidation.

  33. Elementary sartorial techniques initially applied preculde repetitive similar action to square of three.

  34. Apostatize degrees of antagonism to banish awareness of the specified interval of time.

  35. Alacrity assembles prodigality.

  36. Prepotency eludes the chicane.

  37. One diminutive yielding cupuled nut, the prodigious quercus stems forth.

  38. An esteemed paramour is effortless forfeit rather than brought into being.

If you are not able to figure out any of the proverbs you can email me to get the complete list of proverbs. Please include "Pleonastic" as the subject of the email.

 

Now for a long killer . . . Can you simplify the following???

A research team proceeded towards the apex of a natural geologic protuberance, the purpose of their expedition being the procurement of a sample of fluid hydride of oxygen in a large vessel, the exact size of which was unspecified. One member of the team precipitously descended, sustaining severe damage to the upper cranial portion of his anatomical structure; subsequently the second member of the team performed a self rotational translation oriented in the same direction taken by the first team member.


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