Phrases

Question 1

The name of what fictional American individual, possibly derived from that of a murderous English chimney sweep, from that of an archangel of death, and/or as a jolly euphemism for the underworld, fills in the blank in the slang expression of the form what in _____ _____ is going on here?

Answer 1

Sam Hill

Question 2

Alluding to a bad boxer: “Lead with one’s ____”

Answer 2

Chin

Question 3

This rhyming phrase means that learning by repetition causes lack of interest.

Answer 3

Drill and Kill

Question 4

Proverbially, one of these birds “doesn’t make a summer.”

Answer 4

Swallow

Question 5

What phrase, which originally referred to actual prolonged skin irritation, is believed to have first been used in its current and more common form—as a psychological and interpersonal condition—in a 1952 play by George Axelrod (and subsequent 1955 film)?

Answer 5

Seven Year Itch

Question 6

Owing to the traditional location of a grave, this numerical term means to get rid of something, especially at sea.

Answer 6

Deep Six

Question 7

What common phrase, first recorded in the letters of Sir Walter Scott in 1817 referring to “the High-landman’s gun”, has become a popular English merism referring to the whole of anything that has constituent parts?

Answer 7

Lock, Stock and Barrel