Sunday Sip & Serve — Finish the Saying

Coffee on? Tea steeping?

Good.

Today’s Weekend Sip & Solve is a round of familiar sayings with a few that might make you stop for a second before the answer comes back to you.

No Googling. No asking the person beside you. Just you, your memory, and whatever is in your cup.

Finish the Saying

1. Many hands make ______ work.

2. You can’t make an omelette without breaking ______.

3. A chain is only as strong as its weakest ______.

4. Don’t throw the baby out with the ______.

5. The squeaky wheel gets the ______.

6. There’s more than one way to skin a ______.

7. A bad workman blames his ______.

8. Too many cooks spoil the ______.

9. Fortune favours the ______.

10. You can’t have your cake and ______ it too.

How did you do?

8–10 correct: You’ve heard a thing or two.

5–7 correct: Not bad at all. A few were hiding in the back of the cupboard.

0–4 correct: Put the kettle back on. We’re not judging anybody here.

Answers

1. Light

2. Eggs

3. Link

4. Bathwater

5. Grease

6. Cat

7. Tools

8. Broth

9. Bold

10. Eat

Sometimes keeping the mind moving doesn’t need to be complicated. A few words, a familiar phrase, a little memory exercise—and maybe a laugh when the answer was sitting right there all along.

Because sometimes it only takes a minute.

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