Thread: Put in a Good Word for Me - 2

Put in a Good Word for Me - 2

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


3. TRUNK

strangler
cream
sprouts
wings
china
cigar
bed
broil
air
slugger
vice
jack
ward
mule
duck
lawyer
rock
sling
rifle
rose
scale
sausage
concerto



4. MARKET

wing
carpet
cob
house
eye
ball
ground
roof
pumpkin
wall
hog
range
trail
cake
town
back
coals
draw
rocks
mount
brakes
wrist
gas
brain

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.


3. TRUNK

Hint

Spoiler:

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

Answers

Spoiler:

Boston Strangler
Bristol cream
Brussels sprouts
Buffalo wings
Dresden china
Havana cigar
Hollywood bed
London broil
Londonderry air
Louisville slugger
Miami Vice
Monteray jack
Montgomery Ward
Moscow mule
Peking duck
Philadelphia lawyer
Plymouth rock
Saratoga trunk
Singapore sling
Springfield rifle
Tokyo Rose
Toledo scale
Vienna sausage
Warsaw Concerto

4. MARKET

Hint:

Spoiler:

Each phrase is of the form: "__ on the __"

Answers

Spoiler:

bird on the wing
call on the carpet
corn on the cob
drinks on the house
drug on the narket
easy on the eye
eye on the ball
feet on the ground
fiddler on the roof
frost on the pumpkin
handwriting on the wall
high on the hog
home on the range
hot on the trail
icing on the cake
night on the town
pat on the back
pour on the coals
quick on the draw
Scotch on the rocks
sermon on the mount
slam on the brakes
slap on the wrist
step on the gas
water on the brain

"drug on the narket"? Shouldn't that be spelled "narc"?