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Chris -- 2018-04-11
The ‘pit’ in “pit your wits” for example, I assume comes from the pit in which cocks, dogs etc are pitted against each other. The eggcornish ‘pick’ variant possesses a choice of alternative imagery: ‘picking’ as in carefully selecting, extracting with a pick, plucking wit-strings with a pick/plectrum or pick as in the ‘pick of the bunch’ – the best or most able.
The competition encourages post graduate students, regardless of their School to pick their wits against their peers where the only agenda is creativeness. ...
www.3dreid.com/content/334/view – 11k – Cached
This will see Greater Manchester pick their wits against other centres such as Liverpool, Everton, Crewe and Blackburn from the North West. ...
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Next comes a mental test against an interrogator, you pick your wits against him, or you can tell him is your number, no names nothing, just “I can’t answer …
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Come and pick your wits against the blokes on Friday 3rd November at the Cadbury Club. Let quizmeister Cath torture your little grey cells – you could win …
www.bournvilleladieshockey.co.uk/quiz06.htm
Good luck chaps in anything you do, it’s been good to pick our wits against each other. But I will give you the proper stats before you go. ...
forum.tribalwars.net/showthread.php?p=2895418
He has to pick his wits and battle with fellow residents, Harrison Ford and Sean Connery who have hidden his supply of Depends. Posted on Jul 14 2008 23:54 …
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Blending with “pick your brain(s)†is likely involved, I think (he said, scratching his brain.)
*If the human mind were simple enough for us to understand,
we would be too simple-minded to understand it* .
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I’ve dragged back another family tree, of phrases that must be derived from “pit your wits against”, either directly or through blended imagery.
Adventure tours:
Trout fishing in the rivers and ice-fed mountain streams is a great sport. You may put your wits against the wily trout — both brown and rainbow — and catch the excitement of hooking a rainbow.
(http://www.alpcordindiatours.com/theme_ … tours3.htm)
(195 ghits)
Tech review:
SoldierAnts is a great turn based strategy/action game where you pitch your wits against 1 to 4 players that can be either AI or your friends.
(http://www.slashgear.com/forums/3_5635_0.html)
(at least 15)
Party game:
A.) The “fun” of the game lies solely on some (or most) of the people knowing the rule, and the rest (the clueless) is left to muse on what the rule of the game is, and
B.) Those who do not know must purge their wits against each other in the desperate effort not to be the poor bloke who solves the riddle last
(http://claustrophobic.blogspot.com/2007 … -game.html)
Puzzle demo:
You’ll get to face wits against a computer controlled General Tarn, who obviously has been playing the game a great deal longer than you have.
(http://kotaku.com/5134630/try-puzzle-qu … rix-online)
Factitious sports blog:
The Flyers appear to be completely out of wits against the Penguins and don’t look like there going to be catching up anytime soon.
(http://www.blogcatalog.com/blogs/sports-obsessed.html)
Sermon:
Expositors have batted their wits against this strange pronouncement, and brought forth all manner of equally strange conclusions in their tenacity to absolve Jesus from either ridicule or cries of injustice.
(http://www.oxleigh.freeserve.co.uk/wp27.htm)
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