Riddle, are you brainy...??

Question

The following are colloquialisms/idioms written in their literal form. Try to find all four.

Example: A Panthera Pardus is incapable of altering its texture. (A leopard can't change its spots)

1. A colorless crystalline carbon existing within a uncouth environment.

2. Descending in the manner of the order of Diptera.

3. A late pop singer has departed from the premises.

4. To be delivered by metallic object that brings forth a great ringing noise.

Answer 1

1: A rough diamond.
2: Dropping like flies.
3: Elvis has left the building.
4: Saved by the bell.

Answer 2

1. Diamond in the rough

2. Dropping like flies

3. Elvis has left the building

4. Saved by the bell

Answer 3

1. diamond in the rough
2. dropping like flies
3. Elvis has left the building
4. saved by the bell

Answer 4

1. "Diamond in the rough" is right...
2. "Falling like flies"?
3. I don't know what this is... Hmm... "Elvis has left the building"... Elvis isn't exactly recent...
4. "Brought by the gong"? Oh, it's "saved by the bell"!

Answer 5

The languishing Pine, the least selfish yew, And the apple that bears a curse; The chronologist's date, the fisherman's crab, And the honey suckle like an Irish nurse? The box that will fight, and the dogwood that obeys you, And the lilac that never stands still; The Rose that got up, and the sloe that is lazy, And the Plane neither up nor down hill? Cheers!!!

Answer 6

I know I'm gunna kick myself when I hear the answers, but i only think I know one and that is, 3. Elvis had left the building. Yep the easy one folks, hehe. :)

Answer 7

1.a diamond in the rough

Answer 8

diamond in the rough
lord of the flies
Elvis has left the building
bang the gong

lol just going with my first thoughts...lol

Answer 9

Agree with Bogwoppit. I did not know number 4.

Answer 10

a terminal case of cranial rectitus