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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