Add a Word, Drop a Word #14

Previous entries:

Treasure Island

Fantasy Island

"Mind" Island

My addition:

Mind over matter

Does it Matter by Alan Watts

what's the matter

May morning matter*

as in "More matter for a May morning!"
-- Twelfth Night

May pole

May Fly

Too human*

as in: Stephanopoulos's (or, for that matter Nietzsche's) All too Human

(Just wondering, Roland -- why not just put "All Too Human" as your entry? I don't think it's too many words, or anything.)

Human Condition

Condition Red

Red Square

Circle in the Square

N. Roberts's Circle trilogy

Lord of the Rings trilogy

Snopes: a trilogy of The Hamlet, The Town and The Mansion
by William Faulkner

A Town Called Alice

Alice Cullen

Carlisle Cullen

Mark Haddon

Bennett's These Twain

These Foolish Things

Thing 1 & Thing 2

A one and a two....

two step

step up

Batter up!

pancake batter

hit batter*

*a batter who gets hit by the pitcher is, for some reason,usually called by the archaic word "batsman", but semantically a "hit batsman" IS as described above.

better batter

better times ahead

these times*

*Irish and dialectical british?) English for
American "these DAYS"

New York Times

Times Square

Herald Square

herald angels

Herald of Free Enterprise

Boston Herald*

*A Murdoch newspaper, formerly the Record-American > Herald-American, Hearst papers

Boston baked beans

Boston clam chowder

chowder head

head master

master craftsman

Toibin's The Master*

*the title refers to a fictional Henry James, master prosateur.

master bedroom

bedroom farce

Feydeau farce

tragedy, comedy, farce

(associating from #56, since #57 is spam)

Seneca, Terence, Plautus

Terence Stamp

stamp collector

Postage stamp

due process

process server

server load

Nabokovʻs Speak, Memory

Sick transit gloria Nobokovis

The weak, as attacked*

*as in Blackʻs {War against the Weak: Eugenics. . .

On 76, 77:

(Never thought Iʻd be writing an exegesis on a post in "Add a Word,Drop a Word". But here goes:

"Never heard about eugenics and blacks. . ."

--Youʻre not hearing about "blacks" NOW. Black, however (note the upper case) is the author of a book of which the first word of the subtitle is "Eugenics"

"Poltroons in me" is an interesting phrase, whatever it means.

C. Wilsonʻs Personality Surgeon

(78 obviously isnʻt a game entry; Iʻm not sure if 77 is or not, but Iʻm playing on the
last word of 77.)

Mommy dearest

dearest love

+ Erich Segal's +
Love Story

Love's old sweet song

Love at first sight

first light

bright light

light year

Asian light*

*as in: Arnold's Light of Asia . . . Gautama

Add-a-word LITE

pussy galore

C. MacKenzie's Whisky Galore*

*Title of its movie version was Tight Little Island; of which the sequel was Mad Little Island, based on MacKenzie's Rockets Galore

Whiskey Lullaby

Lullaby of Broadway

Broadway Show

time flies

flies coach

automatic deposit

"Deposit Land" *

* Some 1950s U.S. students' pronunciation of the classic sociiologyical study of Mexican agriculture: Tepoztlan

land grant

land grab

Tuttle's Grammar Grab Bag

math tricks*

*as in: Julius's Rapid Math Tricks

math elite

math a - d LITE, and
math f - z LITE

math makes me feel clear- but heavy-headed.

clear as a bell

Saved by the Bell

a midnight clear

The "Porphyrogenoi" Byzantine Emperors

Emperor's New Groove

emperor's new clothes

Penrose's Emperor's New Mind

Penrose Sausage

Italian sausage

Ann Radcliffe's The Italian

Daniel Radcliffe

Daniel in the Lions' Den

wolf's den

wolf's pace*

*The literal translation of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's 1st name.

pace off

Requiescat in Pace*

*Of late, can be said of Robert Parker, J.D. Salinger, and Louis Auchincloss

Pace University

pace yourself

the Teach Yourself Series

World Series

World War

Disney World

Disney Animation

Disney Cruise

Conan O'Brien

Potatoes O'Brien

Tiny Tim

Tiny Dancer

Jhabvala's Poet and Dancer

belly dancer

belly rub

rub down

beat down

first down

first prime

(Yeah, I know that's repetitive, but it's from Stargate SG-1)

Optimus Prime

Jupiter Maximus, Optimus

gluteus maximus

lumos maximus

Slightly off topic):
I couldnʻt find "lumos" in my English or Greek dictionaries; I didnʻt try Latin, because no Latin word (in the nominative case) ends in -os.

#161 -- Ah, but you are forgetting that you are posting on a Harry Potter group thread.
http://www.hplex.org/magic/spells/spells_l.html#lumos

Lumos spell

On 162:

Thanks, foggidawn

spell of bad weather

weather the storm

Roy "Stormy" Weatherly

Michael Weatherly

Douglas on the Isle of Man

Man o' War

Stingray

Police station

radio station

Satellite radio

satellite images

satellite nation

nation building

building code

Code Red!

Red Cross

Stations of the Cross

gas stations

Eat and Get Gas

eat humble pie

pie chart

pie crust

earth's crust

earth's atmosphere

chilly atmosphere

chilly reception

reception dinner

theatre conservatory

music conservatory

The sound of music

the sound of bells

commercial jingles

commercial vehicle

television commercial

television station

space station

space cadet

space race

Outer space

outer limits

outer banks

Lady Banks Rose (one I've frozen to death several times)

Briar Rose

name of the rose

Rose Red

white rose

Black Knight

black and blue

silk stocking

Road to Ruin

Greek Ruins

My big fat greek wedding

wedding march

March Break

blank look

blank book

cheque book

blank cheque

blank verse

verse translation

lost in space

lost in time

time marches on

"Time,gentlemen!"

gentlemen prefer blondes

joke shop

sweet shop

sweet tooth

tooth fairy

bi-urban tale*

*as in Dickens's A Tale of Two Cities

urban legend

urban myth

The Well of Lost Plots by Jasper Fforde

The Passover Plot by Hugh Schonfield

Passover supper

Last Supper

Grishamʻs Last Juror

last train to clarksville

Stamboul Train / Orient Express*
by Graham Greene

* S.T. is the British title, O.E. the American
--or is it the other way around?

Maid in Manhattan

Manhattan chowder

clam chowder

clam up

double cheeseburgers are "up"!

i can has cheezburger?

"Yes, we CAN!"

can-can

Can. . .from here*

*As in Shirley maclaineʻs You can get there from Here (and I realize that "can" and "Can-can" are not the same word, but Shirley did star in Can-can

Can Am

I am a Cat* by Soseki Natsume

*also translated as "I am the Cat"

cat's whiskers

cat's meow

Johnstonʻs Meow is for Murder

(love I am a Cat by the way very funny)

Murder on the Orient Express

Rostovtzevʻs Orient and Greece

"glory and grandeur", respectively -- according to E.A. Poe.

Hand of Glory

morning glory

morning paper

paper roses

paper heart

Binchyʻs Heart and Soul

soul food

dinosaur food*

*as in: How do Dinosaurs Eat their Food?
by Jane Yolen

food stamps

food chain

chain gang

street gang

Whyteʻs Street Corner Society

dead poets society

"dead white males"

breaking news*

*which can be "bad" (#309) too, but that of
yesterday wasnʻt.

news hound

F. Thompsonʻs Hound of Heaven

Hound dog

Wallerʻs* Dog Day Afternoon

*Leslie Waller: real name of Patrick Mann (pseud.)

sunny afternoon

Goldie Hawn as "Sunny"

side out*

*a term under the old rules in volleyball

strike, spare, or open frame

bed frame

flat bed

"Iron Mike" Tyson

iron horse

race track

star anise

All Star Game

Star Wars

World Wars

Warrenʻs World Enough and Time

time travellers

turning back time

time turner

Tina Turner

James "Milkman Jim" Turner

William Turner

** Pirates of the Caribbean

Nat King Cole

Old Spice

spice of life

Durantʻs Lessons of History

Ariel Durant

Jose E. Rodoʻs Ariel

no way, Jose

Brooklyn Exit*

* as in Selbyʻs Last Exit to Brooklyn

exit sign

McHughʻs Hinge & Sign

Stop sign

"Stop worrying . . ."*

*as in: Carnegieʻs How to Stop Worrying
and Start Living

Worry wart

P. Hughesʻs Is thy Name Wart?

What's In A Name

The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco

Joyceʻs "Leopold Bloom"

Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor

The Ghost of Vermeer of Delft Which Can Be Used As a Table

Delft ware

Green Bay

Henry Fonda

Tomalinʻs "Jane" *

* as in: Jane Austen: a Life by Claire Tomalin

Tarzan & Jane

ʻMe: Tarzan"

me and my shadow

"the Shadow" aka "Lamont Cranston"

God only knows

Riemanʻs Lonely Crowd

ancient Roman crowd*

*as In Millarʻs The Crowd in Rome
in the Late Republic

Roman holiday

Comfort Inn

DuMaurierʻs Jamaica Inn

DuMaurier’s The House on the Strand

The House Of Mirrors

broken mirrors

Broken Social Scene

Woolfʻs London Scene

this "fiction"(?) *

*as in Barryʻs Dave Barry is not making this up.

Barry White

White flag

White Army*

*opponent of the Red Army in the post WW I Civil war in Russia

"Russian Communism" *

*The usual Cold War expression for the Soviet Communism of that time -- or, in strict Marxit terminology, "Soviet SOCIALISM".

the usual suspects

traditional Catholic suspects*

*as in Keatingʻs The Usual Suspects: Answering Anti-Catholic Fundamentalists

traditional method

method acting

Science, as "Method"

You blinded me with Science!

"brink" science

*as in: Brockmanʻs Science at the Edge

rocket science

general science

batting practice

batting 1000

"batting around"

around the world in 80 days

2 months + four, minus a fortnight

four score

four in hand

A bird in the hand . . .

"Bird" Parker

+ Robert B. Parker +

Robert the Bruce

County Hospital*

*comedy(?) of Laurel & Hardy from the era when
they first had talking --and the screen writers didnʻt quite know what to do with it.

Tina Turner

Lillian Russell

William Shakespeare

Time for a new thread!