Thursday, 17 October 2013

wordplay - Misheard and Obscured


My friend was trying to tell me an idiom he heard, but I think it got lost in translation. What he ended up telling me was this:




Bread makeup
Not harmful
Obviously
525600s



Can you guys figure out what idiom he was trying to tell me?


Note:


As it has caused some confusion, everything written is correct.
Also to be clear I simply transcribed exactly what he said to me


Hint:




s != seconds, s == s



Hint 2:



You can't apply this makeup




Answer



Here's what I got:




Wet behind the ears



Each line is



A word that has been misheard as a different word and then obscured by a synonym



Bread makeup



Some bread is made of whey, kind of sounds like wet
OP's intended word for this clue: wheat




Not harmful



Benign, sounds like behind



Obviously



Duh, sounds like the (thanks Dan Russell)



525600s




A year's worth of minutes, and year + s sounds like ears



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