Writers’ Dash: November 2017
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Morning Dash
| 1. | Kedge | 2. | It is dark at the foot of a lighthouse. | 3. | A wise man is never less alone than when alone. | 4. | Bridge | 5. | Three may keep a secret if two of them are dead. |
| 6. | Kludge | 7. | A slice off a cut loaf isn’t missed. | 8. | Trust not one night’s ice. | 9. | Fudge | 10. | The good seaman is known in bad weather. |
| 11. | Midge | 12. | A deaf husband and a blind wife are always a happy couple. | 13. | The future ain’t what it used to be. | 14. | Fledge | 15. | Speech sows, silence reaps. |
| 16. | Sludge | 17. | The art of being a parent is sleeping when the baby isn’t looking. | 18. | A bad workman quarrels with his tools. | 19. | Badger | 20. | You can’t unscramble scrambled eggs. |
| 21. | Budge | 22. | Little thieves are hanged, but great ones escape. | 23. | Too much politeness is impertinent. (Japanese proverb) | 24. | Badge | 25. | Fire is a good servant but a bad master. |
| 26. | Cudgel | 27. | A slice off a cut loaf isn’t missed. | 28. | A traveler may lie with authority. | 29. | Nudge | 30. | He who controls his tongue saves his head. |
| 31. | Midget |
Evening Dash
| 1. | Don’t take down a fence unless you are sure why it was put up. | 2. | The tongue ever turns to the aching tooth. | 3. | Smudge | 4. | The morning knows more than the evening. | 5. | Dredge |
| 6. | Books and friends should be few and good. | 7. | If you run after two hares, you will catch neither. | 8. | Budget | 9. | God sends meat, but the devil sends cooks. | 10. | Sledge |
| 11. | If you are not a fish, how can you know whether the fish are happy? (Chinese proverb) | 12. | He that would learn to pray, let him go to sea. | 13. | Pledge | 14. | Money has no smell. (Roman emperor’s son objected to a tax on public lavatories. His father asked him to sniff a coin collected from the tax and forced him to admit the coin had no offensive odor.) | 15. | Wedge |
| 16. | A blind man’s wife needs no paint. | 17. | Doge (Pronounced like “dodge” but with a long “o”. The doge was neither a duke in the modern sense, nor the equivalent of a hereditary duke. The title “doge” was the title of the senior-most elected official of Venice and Genoa; both cities were republics and elected doges.) | 18. | Lodge | 19. | Do not push the river, it will flow by itself. | 20. | Stodge |
| 21. | Whosoever draws his sword against the prince must throw the scabbard away. | 22. | Love your enemy, but don’t put a gun in his hand. | 23. | Gauge | 24. | The devil makes his Christmas pies of lawyers’ tongues and clerks’ fingers. | 25. | Codger |
| 26. | A good deed dies when it is spoken about. (Arabian proverb) | 27. | Edge | 28. | The devil gets up to the belfry by the vicar’s skirts. (Wicked people may operate among good people in order to enact their schemes.) | 29. | Dodge | 30. | A jackass can kick a barn door down, but it takes a carpenter to build one. |
| 31. | An ape’s an ape, a varlet’s a varlet, though they be clad in silk or scarlet. |
Prompts courtesy of Edmund Broek.