HH14

Ways of teasing a beginner or inexperienced person—for example, by sending her for a ‘left-handed monkey wrench’: “Go get me a(n) ________.”

This question was slightly altered from the 1965–70 question.

BLINKER FLUID	2
LEFT-HANDED MONKEY WRENCH	2
PIPE-STRETCHER	2
HAMMER FOR (POUNDING NAILS)	1
HEN WEIGH (ABOUT THREE LBS.)	1

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