| Author | Message | ||
| Biograd (Biograd)
New member Username: Biograd Post Number: 568 Registered: 6-2008 |
Tommyp, that was a good idea. Idioms are almost necessarily lateral by nature. Here's one I heard for the first time recently, but maybe you've heard it before and will find it easy. Anyway, here it goes: The clear water of the spring looked enticing from the perspective of the fairy tale princess. | ||
| Biograd (Biograd)
New member Username: Biograd Post Number: 569 Registered: 6-2008 |
Oh, and I forgot--bonus points to anyone who can tell me how this phrase originated (i.e. the original form of the phrase) without looking it up. Once it's solved of course. | ||
| Biograd (Biograd)
New member Username: Biograd Post Number: 570 Registered: 6-2008 |
Oh, last thing: "fairy tale" is meant to be taken as a whole, not as "fairy" and "tale" separately. | ||
| Jenburdoo (Jenburdoo)
New member Username: Jenburdoo Post Number: 1975 Registered: 5-2003 |
Spring = season? metal gadget? breakout? Perspective = view? Glass? Fairy tale = Anything to do with folk? fiction? fantasy? animals' rear ends? | ||
| Tommyp (Tommyp)
New member Username: Tommyp Post Number: 1047 Registered: 3-2004 |
You forgot your name in the title, beware of woubits... ;-) spring: water relevant? mattress relevant? are we looking for something smaller than a football? something of just one material? metal? glass? plastic? or something untangible? perspective: drawing relevant? tangible? untangible? view relevant? fairy tale: are we looking for a synonym/near-synonym? or for a specific fairy tale? or is there something else than stories read for children relevant? | ||
| Biograd (Biograd)
New member Username: Biograd Post Number: 571 Registered: 6-2008 |
Jenburdoo: Spring = season? metal gadget? breakout? None exactly OTRT, but metal gadget is closest Perspective = view? This meaning, but not the right word Glass? Fairy tale = Anything to do with folk? fiction? fantasy? This is closest, and in fact quite OTRT animals' rear ends? Tommyp: You forgot your name in the title, beware of woubits... ;-) Sorry, though I don't know what woubits have to do with this spring: water relevant? No mattress relevant? No are we looking for something smaller than a football? something of just one material? metal? glass? plastic? or something untangible? All rest FA perspective: drawing relevant? tangible? untangible? This view relevant? Yes to concept, though not the word "view" fairy tale: are we looking for a synonym/near-synonym? In a sense or for a specific fairy tale? or is there something else than stories read for children relevant? All else no. | ||
| Yojimbo (Yojimbo)
New member Username: Yojimbo Post Number: 207 Registered: 11-2009 |
perspective: angle? slant? fairy tale: daydream? spring: coil? leap? jump? | ||
| Biograd (Biograd)
New member Username: Biograd Post Number: 572 Registered: 6-2008 |
perspective: angle? slant? fairy tale: daydream? spring: coil? leap? jump? No to all, if these are specific words. The two for "perspective" are quite OTRT as to the sense of the word, the others less so. | ||
| Yojimbo (Yojimbo)
New member Username: Yojimbo Post Number: 215 Registered: 11-2009 |
perspective: viewpoint? mindset? fairy tale: fable? parable? story? dream? lie? spring: spiral? bounce? recoil? | ||
| Biograd (Biograd)
New member Username: Biograd Post Number: 573 Registered: 6-2008 |
perspective: viewpoint? This is close, in concept. mindset? This much less so fairy tale: fable? parable? story? dream? lie? None of these are exactly right, nor particularly OTRT spring: spiral? bounce? recoil? none is particularly OTRT, but the last two are most correct in that they are verbs Since it seems these random guesses kind of take the fun out, your biggest hint is probably to look for where I gave the strongest "yeses". There's one guess for one of the words that was particularly good, though not precisely correct. Those who know this idiom might even get it just from that. For the word "spring", you may need to stretch your imagination. | ||
| Fleemco198 (Fleemco198)
New member Username: Fleemco198 Post Number: 311 Registered: 9-2009 |
fairy tale: Song and dance of some sort? the: the? (i'm just bored right now) | ||
| Kalira (Kalira)
New member Username: Kalira Post Number: 271 Registered: 2-2009 |
for spring: Was the sort of OTRT track part 'metal'? or 'gadget'? or was it the whole thing together? Springs the device deal with things like tension, extension, and compression. Are any of these relevant? Is there a Slinky anywhere in your thought process for this word? or a pogo stick? Does the word that you're looking for us to connect to have more to do with the form of a spring? the material? what it does? or is this far away from the right track? perspective: is the synonym/meaning we're supposed to go from with 'view' close to any of these: eye? see? watch? fairy tale: You said 'fantasy' was closest. Are we looking for a synonym like fancy? vision? Is the word for this more in the vein of illusion? or hallucination? or imagination? | ||
| Arek_fu (Arek_fu)
New member Username: Arek_fu Post Number: 799 Registered: 12-2007 |
Perspective: projection? Sny of the following relevant: springboks? Springing as in "water springing from a rock"? Springing as in "springing from a noble family"? Springing a mine? Springing as in "cracking"? | ||
| Biograd (Biograd)
New member Username: Biograd Post Number: 575 Registered: 6-2008 |
fairy tale: Song and dance of some sort? This is quite OTWT the: the? Yes (: (i'm just bored right now) Kalira: for spring: Was the sort of OTRT track part 'metal'? or 'gadget'? or was it the whole thing together? gadget is more relevant Springs the device deal with things like tension, extension, and compression. Are any of these relevant? Tension is vaguely relevant Is there a Slinky anywhere in your thought process for this word? or a pogo stick? No to both, my word wouldn't work to describe either of these Does the word that you're looking for us to connect to have more to do with the form of a spring? the material? what it does? Thisish or is this far away from the right track? perspective: is the synonym/meaning we're supposed to go from with 'view' close to any of these: eye? see? watch? Noish fairy tale: You said 'fantasy' was closest. Are we looking for a synonym like fancy? More another form of the word vision? Is the word for this more in the vein of illusion? or hallucination? or imagination? and this is closest in meaning Arek_fu: Perspective: projection? No Any of the following relevant: springboks? Springing as in "water springing from a rock"? Springing as in "springing from a noble family"? Springing a mine? Springing as in "cracking"? No to all, with a tiny ish for the last | ||
| Galfisk (Galfisk)
New member Username: Galfisk Post Number: 887 Registered: 9-2009 |
Fairy tale: imagination? Fiction? Perspective: viewpoint? Vantage? Panorama? Spring: jump? Bounce? Stretch? Another verb? | ||
| Kaygee (Kaygee)
New member Username: Kaygee Post Number: 391 Registered: 9-2008 |
Another form of the word fantasy - fantasia? fantasize? | ||
| Biograd (Biograd)
New member Username: Biograd Post Number: 583 Registered: 6-2008 |
Fairy tale: imagination? Fiction? Perspective: viewpoint? Vantage? Panorama? Spring: jump? Bounce? Stretch? Another verb? No to all Another form of the word fantasy - fantasia? fantasize? Yesish but not one of these | ||
| Galfisk (Galfisk)
New member Username: Galfisk Post Number: 922 Registered: 9-2009 |
Fantasy: dream? Daydream? Imagine? Imagination? Something along these lines? Spring: something a spring is? Like elastic? Bouncy? Spiral shape relevant? Or could it have been a blade spring? | ||
| Biograd (Biograd)
New member Username: Biograd Post Number: 584 Registered: 6-2008 |
Fantasy: dream? Daydream? Imagine? Imagination? Something along these lines? Kaygee was much closer Spring: something a spring is? Like elastic? Bouncy? Spiral shape relevant? Or could it have been a blade spring? None of these. The answer is a verb | ||
| Biograd (Biograd)
New member Username: Biograd Post Number: 585 Registered: 6-2008 |
Minor correction: It could have been any kind of spring (or in fact, a literal spring need not be involved) causing/taking part in the action that the word describes | ||
| Woubit (Woubit)
Moderator Username: Woubit Post Number: 905 Registered: 5-2007 |
Trip the light fantastic? | ||
| Biograd (Biograd)
New member Username: Biograd Post Number: 587 Registered: 6-2008 |
Trip the light fantastic? YES. Great going Woubit! Trip = spring (like for example a mousetrap) Light = perspective (seen in another light...) Fairy tale = fantastic (stories of the real or the fantastic) The expression, for those of you who haven't heard of it, means to dance. Which immediately raises the obvious question, WHY? I looked up the answer, but I'm curious if any of you know. | ||
| Gourami (Gourami)
Moderator Username: Gourami Post Number: 828 Registered: 10-2008 |
I had to look it up too. Cool. And interesting that "light" and "fantastic" are both meant to be adjectives describing a totally absent noun. Interesting to an English major, at least. Is this one all done, Bio? | ||
| Biograd (Biograd)
New member Username: Biograd Post Number: 592 Registered: 6-2008 |
Is this one all done, Bio? I guess so, as nobody has been able to answer the challenge. I'll just say that the phrase originally had the word "toe" at the end. How a toe can be fantastic I don't know, and neither do I know why it was dropped. I'm glad you found it interesting, Gourami. | ||
| Biograd (Biograd)
New member Username: Biograd Post Number: 593 Registered: 6-2008 |
Oh, and *************SPOILER******************* | ||
| Gourami (Gourami)
Moderator Username: Gourami Post Number: 837 Registered: 10-2008 |
Perhaps some unusual nail polish? That could be pretty fantastic. |
