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1 three sheets to the wind 6x
2 paint the town red 6x
3 fish 4x
4 Time 4x
5 the Rubicon 4x
6 cake 4x
7 Curiosity killed the cat 4x
8 pink 4x
9 the nines 3x
10 the mustard 3x
11 the fourth estate 3x
12 purple 3x
13 New Year's Day 3x
14 Mudville 3x
15 Mork & Mindy 3x
16 keep your fingers crossed 3x
17 Gesundheit 3x
18 alma mater 3x
19 a red herring 3x
20 a diamond 3x
21 salt 3x
22 salad days 3x
23 the gospel truth 3x
24 yellow journalism 2x
25 Waterloo 2x
26 war 2x
27 vice versa 2x
28 uncle 2x
29 two cents 2x
30 the sword of Damocles 2x
31 the seventh-inning stretch 2x
32 the limelight 2x
33 the gills 2x
34 the beans 2x
35 the 8 ball 2x
36 the 12th man 2x
37 square 2x
38 spitting image 2x
39 snake eyes 2x
40 small potatoes 2x
41 Sic semper tyrannis 2x
42 seize the wine 2x
43 rubies 2x
44 quid pro quo 2x
45 pursuit 2x
46 pins & needles 2x
47 pass the buck 2x
48 money 2x
49 milk 2x
50 Let sleeping dogs lie 2x

Sample Clues

The usual number in this nautical phrase for being very drunk is 3, but feel free to get as high as you want
three sheets to the wind
To go out & celebrate boisterously, particularly by hitting bars & other nightspots
paint the town red
When you have something more important to do, you have "other" these "to fry"
fish
In a traditional story opening, this prepositional phrase follows "once"
Time
To make an irrevocable decision, from action taken by Julius Caesar, touching off war in Rome
the Rubicon
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