Math Help - Put in a Good Word for Me - 1

Put in a Good Word for Me - 1

Find a common property shared by the 24 words in the list.
Then insert the first word into its proper place in the list.


1. DELIGHT

crawl
bacon
checkers
pastry
uncle
toffee
kiss
measles
goulash
summer
mist
hand
rum
standoff
rug
mahagony
joke
roulette
plaid
twins
fly
meatball
cheese
rabbit



2. FIDDLE

bat
bee
whistle
bell
cucumber
button
post
bone
pancake
daisy
rock
kite
feather
pin
ghost
picture
beet
dog
rail
whip
board
mule
drum
owl

Answers

If you're getting nowhere, it's quite normal.
There is a pattern and once you see it, it's "obvious."
I could not give any hints without giving away the object of the quiz.


1. DELIGHT

Hint

Spoiler:

Each term is preceded by a nationality.
The completed phrases are listed in alphabetical order.

Answers

Spoiler:

Australian crawl
Canadian bacon
Chinese checkers
Danish pastry
Dutch uncle
English toffee
French kiss
German measles
Hungarian goulash
Indian summer
Irish mist
Italian hand
Jamaican rum
Mexican standoff
Persian rug
Phillipine mahagony
Polish joke
Russian roulette
Scotch plaid
Siamese twins
Spanish fly
Swedish meatball
Swiss cheese
Turkish delight
Welsh rabbit

2. FIDDLE

Hint

Spoiler:

These are phrases of the form "__ as a __".
The completed phrases are in alphabetical order.

Answers

Spoiler:

Blind as a bat
Busy as a bee
Clean as a whistle
Clear as a bell
Cool as a cucumber
Cute as a button
Deaf as a post
Dry as a bone
Fit as a fiddle
Flat as a pancake
Fresh as a daisy
Hard as a rock
High as a kite
Light as a feather
Neat as a pin
Pale as a ghost
Pretty as a picture
Red as a beet
Sick as a dog
Skinny as a rail
Smart as a whip
Stiff as a board
Stubborn as a mule
Tight as a drum
Wise as an owl