Riddle Me Scent

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They follow but your dummy scent

I'm off and they lose where you went,

What tracks you took, they're off and gone

Away a stone is close but left anon

Until I bring the light, my move demands

That you will understand.

'I sent a dummy?'
'No, your dummy scent.'
'What did my dummy send?'
'Nothing in the slightest!'

 

Riddle Answer A Throw

 

Riddle Explanation

scent I'm off and they lose where you went - to throw someone off the scent.

what tracks you took, they're off and gone - to throw someone off the tracks.

away a stone is close - a stone's throw away.

until I bring the light, my move demands that you will understand - to throw an amount of light on something.

The Royal Queen

She sat there balancing her royal crown with more poise than I'd ever seen in any Queen.

Riddle Me Bone

There's many bone to make a body, click the title see your folly.

To me you've got a least one bone,

One brain from which I take what's known

But you won't share? Well I'll climb on,

And with my tool for rock so brawn

For ice, I swing and you may shatter, ceases

Then I'm up and gather pieces.

'I've got hundreds of bones.'
'I'm sure you do, but just one is important here, and it's not inside your body.'

 

Riddle Answer A Pick

 

Riddle Explanation

to me you've got a least one bone - to have a bone to pick with someone.

one brain from which I take what's known - to pick someone's brain.

but you won't share? Well I'll climb on - to pick on someone.

and with my tool for rock so brawn for ice, I swing and you may shatter - a pick is a tool for breaking hard surfaces such as rock and ice.

you may shatter, ceases then I'm up and gather pieces - to pick up the pieces.

And Pose

I found it strange this new fashion, in every picture she turned her fingers into scissors.

Riddle Me Destiny

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Take destiny out for a drink,

I'm early, sooner than you think

To ask to see, for I am blind

Perhaps to double more inclined

But though you take them out, you've lots no doubt;

Of me you're out.

'Why do you never take me out for a drink anymore?'
'I never took you out for a drink before.'
'Precisely!'

 

Riddle Answer A Date

 

Riddle Explanation

take destiny out for a drink - to have a date with destiny.

I'm early, sooner than you think - to do something at an early date, or some date soon.

you think to ask to see, for I am blind - a blind date.

perhaps to double more inclined - a double date.

but though you take them out, you've lots no doubt; of me you're out - to be out-of-date.

And She Flows

If only from all taps I turned flowed such a refreshing surprise. 

Riddle Me Another

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You give another's me to yet one more,

For which both other thanks you for

In honesty the rule is mine,

If I'm of both worlds, both are fine,

If I'm to dress up special, prey

That I will be in one Sunday.

'You give yours to someone else?'
'No, I give another's to someone else. And they both thank me for it.'

 

Riddle Answer The Best

 

Riddle Explanation

you give another's me to yet one more, for which both other thanks you for - to give someone’s best to someone else, as in the expression give my best to them.

in honesty the rule is mine - honesty is the best policy.

if I'm of both worlds, both are fine - the best of both worlds.

if I'm to dress up special, prey that I will be in one Sunday - to be in one's Sunday best.

A feather in one's cap (2)

She must have been truly the best of friends with Peacock to have gotten so many feathers for her cap.

Riddle Me Label

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Mark each sign and check each label,

Be as full of me as able,

For in this world, if not one me,

You'll find the Devil with maybe

An attitude rough feathery,

Not duck, you need a teal see.

'I checked each label on my clothes, is that everything?'
'Um...sure, though I don't think you're quite full enough.'

 

Riddle Answer Care

 

Riddle Explanation

mark each sign and check each label, be as full of me as able - to be careful.

for in this world, if not one me - to not have a care in the world.

you'll find the Devil with maybe an attitude - to have a Devil-may-care attitude.

an attitude rough feathery, not duck, you need a teal see - TLC, or tender loving care.

A feather in one's cap (1)

She clearly was a good friend of the Peacock's, or else how would she have gotten such a feather in her cap?

Riddle Me Come

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You've me, in fact has every man

To come and change with time, began

Now look back and how foolish you

That once you thought the thing to do,

They try to keep in files, documents surmount,

But for you can't account.

'Have I you?'
'Well, yes you do. But it's certainly questionable.'

 

Riddle Answer Taste

 

Riddle Explanation

you've me, in fact has every man to come - every man to his taste.

they try to keep in files, documents surmount, but for you can't account - there is no accounting for taste.

Foxy

Her long red hair and bright chequered-red scarf, it wasn't easy to miss Ms. Foxy.

Riddle Me Plane

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I am quite plane a figure, bound

By one line that depicts a crown

That dies a meter straight across, sir,

Come and fence, the line you spurred,

Egyptian Ra, Roman Deus,

Half when they together plays.

'You aren't such plane a figure. You're exquisitely unique.'
'Ha, well you flatter me.'

 

Riddle Answer A Circle

 

Riddle Explanation

I am quite plane a figure, bound by one line - 'a plane figure bound by one line', Euclid, Elements Book 1.

that dies a meter straight across, sir, come and fence, the line you spurred,
Egyptian Ra, Roman Deus, half when they together plays - key words include; diameter, circumference, and radius.

The Homes of the Sea

A few beautiful little fish had taken up among the lush waves in her hair.

Riddle Me Dead

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You are near dead and me the drain

Flushed spinning, there you go again,

You've come in full, now I've come back

Around, you run, their speed you lack,

You run in many me, but ne'er

Do you get anywhere.

'I've come in full.'
'I knew you would.'
'But now I can't make heads nor tails of anything.'

 

Riddle Answer A Circle

 

Riddle Explanation

you are near dead and me the drain flushed spinning - to circle the drain.

you've come in full - to come in a full circle.

now I've come back - to circle back.

back around, you run, their speed you lack - to run circles around someone.

you run in many me, but ne'er do you get anywhere - to run in circles.

Ant-girl

Picking grapes was twice as fast for her, which worked well since she was rather camera shy.

Riddle Me Up

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You me it up or me it down,

So that in numbers you won't drown,

You me them up and all together

Have them sign my robin, whether

You've got money, fame, status or all above;

The world goes me, with love.

'I like robins.'
'That's wonderful, though this one has no red breast.'
'Oh that's a shame, they are so magnificent in the snow.'

 

Riddle Answer A Round

 

Riddle Explanation

you me it up or me it down, so that in numbers you won't drown - to round something up or down.

you me them up and all together - to round people up.

have them sign my robin - a round robin, or a petition that all sign in sequence so that no individual is held responsible, usually to protest something to a higher authority.

whether you've got money, fame, status or all above; the world goes me, with love - love makes the world go round.

Travelling Salesman

He didn't have many wares, but with his winning smile and dapper bow-tie, somehow he sold a lot.

Riddle Me Company

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Your company may subdivide

And find an extra limb, I'm wide

You open, say good day good sir,

I'm on his knightly shield infer

His family, he's able to

With one bound fast still deal with you.

'I shan't ever like to subdivide our company.'
'Should you not? I do think I'm starting to teach you something.'
'Indeed, you're all the company I need.' 

 

Riddle Answer An Arm

 

Riddle Explanation

your company may subdivide and find an extra limb - an administrative subdivision of an organisation.

I'm wide you open, say good day good sir - to greet someone with open arms.

sir, I'm on his knightly shield infer his family - heraldry bearings or insignia.

he's able to with one bound fast still deal with you - to be able to do something with one arm tied behind one's back.

Chill'd-Warm'd-Wine

I saw her on the shelf and wasn't sure at all whether she was keeping the wine cool or warming it up with her disposition.