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Finding Proverbs

 It’s time for this last Sunday’s (December 6th, 2020) ‘on-air challenge of Word Puzzle by Will Shortz’ on NPR!!

Three consecutive words somewhere in each sentence to be read are the first three words of a familiar proverb or saying. Tell me what it is.

 

Example: Put out a saucer of milk when the cat's hungry. --> When the cat's away the mice will play.

 

    1.   As meteorologists know, every cloud has water droplets.

 

    2.   Variety is the daily publication of show business.

 

    3.   The surgeon put a stitch in the gaping wound.

  

    4.   Through the mountains the road to the next town is very twisty.

 

    5.   On average the proof of most whiskey is 80.

 

    6.   In this motel a picture is hanging over every bed.

 

    7.   The joke starts: a priest, a fool, and a lawyer walk into a bar.

 



Answer Keys

   1.  Every cloud has a silver lining.  

   2.  Variety is the spice of life.   

   3.  A stitch in time saves nine.

   4.  The road to hell is paved with good intentions.

   5.  The proof of the pudding is in the eating.

   6.  A picture is worth a thousand word.

   7.  A fool and his money are easily parted.

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