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Select the other half of each pair. Assume the word “and” between the hint and the answer.

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Bait
Bait and switch. An unscrupulous and sometimes illegal sales technique, in which an inexpensive product is advertised to attract prospective customers who are then told by sales personnel that the inexpensive product is unavailable or of poor quality and are instead urged to buy a more expensive product.
Cap
Cap and gown. An academic robe and cap with mortarboard.
Yes
Yes and no. An answer in reply to a yes-no question, indicating there is no simple "yes" or "no" answer.
Juking
Juking and jiving. Demonstrating frivolity or evasiveness, triviality or inanity. Also, telling a misleading story for advantage.
Hail
Hail and Farewell. A traditional military event whereby those coming to and departing from an organization are celebrated.
Name
Name and number. To take someone’s name and number is to collect their contact information.
Pancakes
Pancakes and syrup. A (mostly breakfast) food pairing.
Up close
Up close and personal. With intimate detail and from a perspective of closeness, sometimes with the implication of intrusiveness or invasion of privacy.
Gin
Gin and tonic. A simple cocktail made from gin and tonic water, often served on ice and with a slice of lime or lemon.
Said
When all’s said and done. (idiomatic) In the end; ultimately.
Dine
Dine and dash. (Canada, US, informal) The crime of eating a meal in a restaurant and leaving without paying.
Rant
Rant and rave. (idiomatic) To express furious anger.
Quick
Quick and dirty. (idiomatic) Done or constructed in a hasty, approximate, temporarily adequate manner, but not exact, fully formed, or reliable for a long period of time.
Fair
Fair and square. Within the applicable rules.
Bag
Bag and baggage. With all one's possessions.
A time
There’s a time and a place for everything. A proverb indicating that the speaker considers what the listener is doing to be inappropriate under the circumstances.
Odds
Odds and sods. (chiefly UK, informal) Miscellaneous items.
Kicking
Kicking and screaming. Against someone's will; with extreme reluctance on someone's part.
Ebony
Ebony and ivory. Originally a reference to the materials used to finish piano keys before trade in ivory was banned. Also, the title of a 1982 single by Paul McCartney featuring Stevie Wonder.
Tall
Tall and thin. Lanky or gangly.
Wake
Wake and bake. (slang) To smoke marijuana soon after waking up.
Ages
Ages and generations. A long time.
A swing
A swing and a miss. (idiomatic) A sincere but unsuccessful attempt; an allusion to unsuccessful physical actions in such sports as cricket, baseball or boxing.
Lakes
Lakes and streams. Types of bodies of water, one still and one flowing.
Mad dogs
Mad dogs and Englishmen. An expression remarking about hot weather, taken from the lyrics of the 1931 song of the same name by Noël Coward whose refrain is “Mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the midday sun.”
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A place
Baggage
Bake
Dash
Dirty
Done
Englishmen
Farewell
Generations
Gown
Ivory
Jiving
No
Number
Personal
Rave
Screaming
Sods
Square
Streams
Switch
Syrup
Thin
Tonic
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