Trivia

41. Elevate yourself by applying upward momentum to the grasping apparati of your own footwear.
Pull yourself up by your bootlaces

42. Without perambulating a minimum of 5,280 feet in the native American footwear belonging to another hominid, you are incapable of mentally grasping the odiferousness.
Walk a mile in another man's shoes and you'll catch his athletes foot.

43. Neither victory nor defeat are of great importance, but rather the conditions under which the endeavor was conducted.
Not if you win or lose, but how you play the game

44. Whatever benefits the large female waterfowl, also benefits her male counterpart.
If it's good for the goose, it's good for the gander

45. If unable to flagellate others successfully, ally yourself with them.
If you can't beat them, join them

46. It is not possible to transform a female swine's otic appendage into a container made from caterpillar-extruded monofilament.
You can't make a silk purse out of sow's ear

47. Although it is possible to guide an equestrian animal to fluid refreshment, there are no means to coerce it to partake.
You can lead a horse to water, but you can make him drink

48. A small quantity of sucrose ameliorates ingestion of pharmaceuticals.
Just spoon full of sugar helps the medicine go down (Julie Andrew's version)

49. Expired piscines and houseguests share the property of olfactory unpleasantness after 72 hours.
Spelled wrong, no clue

50. Despite its extreme abased simplicity, no other abode compares favorably to one's domicile.
There is no place like Home (as said by Judy Garland)
 
Let's have a breakfast date - shall I call you or nudge you? Remember, I am from the government and I am here to help you.
 
I think number 49 is hard because it isn't in my vocabulary. This one came from my wife. The answer to that one is:

49. Dead fish and company both stink after three days.

I think it's a quote by Mark Twain.
 
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For those of you who have been following BT's Big Words, here are the answers I have for the first 50.

1. All that glitters is not gold.2. Beggars cannot be choosers.
3. Dead men tell no tales.
4. Beginner's luck
5. A Rolling stone gathers no moss.
6. There's a sucker born every minute.
7. Birds of a feather flock together.
8. Beauty is only skin-deep.
9. Cleanliness is next to Godliness.
10. Don't cry over spilt milk.
11. A fool and his money are quickly parted.
12. Spare the rod and spoil the child.
13. The pen is mightier than the sword.
14. You can't teach an old dog new tricks.
15. Look before you leap.
16. Rome wasn't built in a day.
17. One who laughs the last, laughs the best.
18. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.
19. People who live glass houses should not cast stones.
20. Where there is smoke, there is fire.
21. No pain, no gain.
22. A stitch in time saves nine.
23. If at first you don't succed -- try, try again.
24. Don't change horses in mid-stream.
25. Don't kill the goose that layes the golden egg.
26. When in Rome -- do as the Romans do.
27. Do unto others as you would have done unto you.
28. You can fool some of the people some of the time, but you can't fool all the people all the time.
29. Practice makes perfect.
30. Let sleeping dogs lie.
31. You can't make an omlette without breaking a few eggs.
32. Don't count your chickens before they're hatched.
33. An apple a day keeps the doctor away.
34. If you can't take the heat, get out of the kitchen.
35. Don't put all your eggs in one basket.
36. The way to a man's heart is through his stomach.
37. The check is in the mail.
38. You can't have your cake and eat it, too.
39. Familiarity breeds contempt.
40. Absence makes the heart grow fonder.
41. Pull yourself up by your own bootstraps.
42. Until you walk a mile in another man's moccasins, you can't imagine the smell.
43. It's not whether you win or lose, but how you play the game.
44. What's good for the goose is good for the gander.
45. If you can't beat 'em, join 'em.
46. You can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear.
47. You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink.
48. A spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down.
49. Dead fish and company both stink after three days.
50. Be it ever so humble, there's no place like home.
 
For those of you looking forward to the next installment of BT's Big Words, here they are:

51. A singular avian in the carpal appendage has the same value as a pair in the flora.

52. Continuously observing a cooking apparatus prevents its contents from attaining a state of agitated vaporization.

53. Prevent the felis domesticus from escaping the restraining pouch.

54. An accelerated coin of low denomination is more effective than a tardy coin of twice its value.

55. He arrived natally, orally equipped with a unit of argentic tableware.

56. Apply force while the ferrous material is thermally enhanced.

57. Determine the primacy - gallus gallus or ovum?

58. In applying incisors, do not exceed mastication capacity.

59. Orally examining a bestowed equine is unadvisable.

60. Either conform to the required standards, or depart via hydrously-buoyed vessel.
 
I thought I had this but while typing it down 54 escaped. I hate getting old.

51. A bird in hand is worth two in the bushes

52. A watched pot never boils.

53. Don't let the cat out of the bag.

54.

55. He was born with a silver spoon in his mouth.

56. Strike while the iron is hot.

57. Which came first, the chicken or the egg?

58. Don't bite off more than you can chew.

59. Never look a gift horrse in hte mouth.

60. Shape up or ship out.

I gotta go shopping.
 
And the answer to the missing entry is:

54. A fast nickel beats a slow dime.

That was another hard one for me as well. Same reason, in my wife's vocabulary and not mine. There should also be another hard one in the next set, but I don't consider it that hard.
 
61. Process alfalfa during meteorologically favorable conditions.

62. Refrain from flagellating a deceased equus.

63. Refrain from oscillating the coracle.

64. Dentally compress the plumbic orb.

65. Refrain from dentally assaulting the provender providing carpal appendage.

66. Each atmospherically suspended tenebrous nebula possesses an argentic layer.

67. An accelerated rate of alteration results in remaining in the original state.

68. Bipolar ignition of the tallow illumination device.

69. Construct a sizable geological upthrust feature from a burrowing rodent's egress.

70. Treble failure disallows further attempts.
 
what is SBD? i looked it up on urban dictionary and i can't say that here. besides, that is not the right answer.
 
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