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Answer: Puppy-dogs' tails

"What Are Little Boys Made of?" is actually an early 19th century nursery rhyme which was published in 1820. The original version said boys were made of slugs and snails but now there are many variations of the rhyme with the most recognized one being "frogs and snails and puppy-dogs' tails".

Answer: Buck

"More bang for your buck" actually means more for your money. Nowadays, the phrase no longer has nuclear connotations as it once did in the 1950s. There is some argument as to who coined the phrase but many suggest it was Charles Wilson, the US Defense Secretary in 1954. Back then the phrase was "a bigger bang for your buck", but over time other variations have cropped up.

Answer: Ointment

"A fly in the ointment" means that there is some kind of a flaw that irritates and spoils the entirety of something.
The phrase has a Biblical origin, from Ecclesiastes 10:1 (King James Version) of the Bible. "Dead flies cause the ointment of the apothecary to send forth a stinking savour: so doth a little folly him that is in reputation for wisdom and honour."

Answer: Tricks

The saying "You can't teach an old dog new tricks" means that as one ages they tend to learn less than what they were able to learn when they were young.

The earliest year that this saying, in a similar variation, appeared in print was in 1534. This was in John Fitzherbert's "The boke of husbandry".

Answer: Stone

"To cast the first stone" originated in John 8:7, in the Bible. The earliest example that is in print is found in "Miles Coverdale's Bible" in 1535. The quote is "Now whyle they contynued axynge him, he lift himself vp, and sayde vnto them: He that is amonge you without synne, let him cast the first stone at her."

What it means is that if you are without any fault of any kind then you can criticize someone else.

Answer: Earth

"The salt of the earth" refers to one as being very valuable and reliable. It is derived from Matthew 5:13 (King James Version) of the Bible. "Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savor, wherewith shall it be salted?"

Answer: Black

"The pot calling the kettle black" originated in "Don Quixote" by Cervantes, but more specifically in the 1620 translation "Cervantes Saavedra's History of Don Quixote" by Thomas Shelton. Its meaning is a criticism that one person is making about another person and that criticism applies to both of them.

Answer: Traveled

"The road less traveled" comes from Robert Frost's poem "The Road Not Taken" (1920). The meaning of the phrase is how one can choose an alternate way to do something.

Answer: Wall

"The writing is on the wall" means that pending danger is now apparent. One variation is "The handwriting on the wall", but the meaning is the same. The Biblical tale of Belshazzar tells how he could not see danger approaching due to being preoccupied with his ways of sin.

Answer: Limit

The meaning of "The sky's the limit" is that there simply is no limit. One early citation of the phrase comes from "The Syracuse Herald" September 1911. "Then good luck, and remember the sky's the limit".