Week 17

Clean as a Whistle

• Someone who whistles when they talk; speech difficulty

• • Completely free from dirt; perfectly neat.

• Someone who whistles when they work

Chip on Your Shoulder

• • To be quarrelsome, aggressive, or rude; to be ready to fight.

• Someone who has been microchipped

• A shoulder injury

True-Blue

• The primary color of blue with no yellow or red added

• Someone who is always sad.

• • Very loyal, dependable, and faithful.

Nitty-gritty

• The practical details; the fundamental core of something.

• Grainy or gritty liquid substances.

• The specific heart of the matter.

Nickel-and-Dime

• A bunch or change together.

• Unimportant; small time; trivial; petty.

• Something made from metals melted together.

Necessity is the Mother of Invention

• It is necessary to listen to your mother, mother knows best.

• Women/Mothers are more creative and wise.

• Inventiveness or creativity is stimulated by need or difficulty

Elapse

• To finish quickly, laps ahead.

• for time to pass or go by

• To forget

Wended

• • go slowly in a certain direction

• To get married

• To bend

Despicable

• To spit

• very small

• deserving hatred

Senile

• to see some far off

• weakness of old age

• to be in denial