Convoluted Verbosities

Right on the 2nd one. The first one was 'doubting Thomas'.

The flexible, terminal extensions of a hominid’s upper appendage, when not actively employed, constitute an atelier for one considered to wield an extremely negative force.

An idle brain is the devil's workshop.

ETA: or, Idle hands are the devil's tools.

(terminal extensions suggest hands, but atelier suggests workshop?)

You got it, LA*78.

The saying exists in several forms. I was going for "Idle hands are the Devil's workshop."

LOL a little from column A, a little from column B

Next one:

The modus operandi of a prodigious conscious psyche demonstrates directly proportionate correlations with analogous counterparts.

It takes a genius to know one?

Nope, try again

Genius minds think alike?

Pretty much. It's 'great minds think alike'.

Your turn

Gretta was very depressed. Her eyes would water, her three teeth had cavities, her right knee was swollen and her right arm couldn't carry heavy weights. The doc's bills would rise and rise.

Then she bought an Iphone and her throat became clear. The next day she bought an Ipod and her ears healed. One by one she bought Steve Jobs products each day and her doctor visits reduced to zero.

An apple a day keeps the doctor away.

She's got a bee in her bonnet.

The contents of a round, deep container of earthenware or metal, typically equipped with handles, will not change from a liquid to a gaseous state, producing bubbles that rise to the surface, agitating the surface as they rise and not infrequently producing a perceptible amount of steam that dissipates in the environs, no matter how long it is observed.

A watched pot never boils.

There was a woman who owned a chain of hotels called 'Essential' Hotels. She used to stay in those hotels and in the tabloids and social circle her name had become Ms Essential. She had nine kids, their names were...

Ira
Nina
Victor
Erica
Nitin
Tara
Ijaz
Onyx
Nilesh

necessity is the mother of invention?

yep, your turn

Be aware that what is seen in this reflective surface can be interpreted as being closer in proximity than its actual physical location.

Objects in mirrors are closer than they appear. (?)

Jehhillenberg said:

Objects in mirrors are closer than they appear. (?)

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yay! you got it! your turn now.

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Positioning one's body down, horizontally beside a mammal of the Canidae family will have one arising in the morning after a good stretch, bust scratching unbearably in places all over with an unwanted nuisance.

Let the sleeping dogs lie?

If you lie down with dogs, you get up with fleas.

Yep, Nymtoc got it.

"Even a broken clock is right twice a day."

Right?

Oh, you were just saying... I thought that was another Verbosity...

Drachen Jager said:

"Even a broken clock is right twice a day."

Right?

Oh, you were just saying... I thought that was another Verbosity...

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Broken clock???!!!

“My faithful companion, I am experiencing a sensation which indicates to me that you and I no longer find ourselves in the familiar, centrally located yet drab milieu where our journey originated."