Cryptographies

[Wiseman]

Good morning folks!
Here we are: following the english games' line from the home page, I open this thread with a bunch of full-english cryptographies.
Are they easy? Or too tough? Are they good and worth solving? I look forward to your answers, comments and counsels!!!

So, go on with these:

Journalist in New York (4,2,3,5) -=> Sign of the times
NUC.EUS (4: 1,4 = 5,4) - Synonimic -=> Corel Draw
Straight Line (5'1,5)
Draw chess match (7,2,"3,5",2,5)
The rafter (7,5)
The ex-parachuter (7,6)
The hop (8,2,1,5)
Diameter (1,5,5)


Those are my first tries, so don't be too severe with your judgements...

Have a nice time!  :wink:

[thinker]

:lol:  :lol:

Wise, you're unbelievable!!


let me see.....but, do we have to think in Italian or in English? :roll:



can the first one be........worm in the apple? :roll:

[Wiseman]

:lol:  :lol:

Wise, you're unbelievable!!

I take it as a compliment....
For the sake of our long lasting friendship  

[thinker]

sorry, I edited, as usual

[Wiseman]

let me see.....but, do we have to think in Italian or in English? :roll:

can the first one be........worm in the apple? :roll:

Of course you gotta think in english...

The worm is very good and idiomatic, but not correct.... Sorry.

[thinker]

well, Wise, I must leave you, now: I'm takin' my son to the swimming pool.....I'll think over your crypts....  it won't be easy, I'm afraid :-?

[Wiseman]

well, Wise, I must leave you, now: I'm takin' my son to the swimming pool.....I'll think over your crypts....  it won't be easy, I'm afraid :-?

See you soon!
Or maybe later tonight...  

[pianoblu]

shyly :oops:
NUC.EUS (4: 1,4 = 5,4) - Synonimic

Corel Draw® ? :roll:

[Rebus70]

Good morning folks!
Here we are: following the english games' line from the home page, I open this thread with a bunch of full-english cryptographies....

I feel me bad!!!
(Come dissi una volta a mia cugina, laureanda in lingue, facendola svenire sul colpo... :lol: )
It's too much, for me!
See you later...

[Wiseman]

shyly :oops:
NUC.EUS (4: 1,4 = 5,4) - Synonimic

Corel Draw® ? :roll:

Very Good!!!!
The first one is gone!

(I know, "Draw" is a bit chicken-stinking, but the result is so idiomatic...)

[merlino]

(I know, "Draw" is a bit chicken-stinking, but the result is so idiomatic...)[/quote]


I think you can translate it as "horsechickenly"  

[pianoblu]

might I try another one, pls?

The rafter (7,5)

waving trunk (the big nose of the elephants) :roll:

...I thought about the man floating trunks on the rivers... sorry for the blunder :oops:

[Wiseman]

might I try another one, pls?

The rafter (7,5)

waving trunk (the big nose of the elephants) :roll:

...I thought about the man floating trunks on the rivers... sorry for the blunder :oops:

You may try whatever you want, of course!
Very good the waving trunk, but's wrong...

This one is based on a false derivation.... Not easy at all, but very idiomatic...

[Wiseman]

And now? Nobody else?  :cry:

Let's start with the hints, then!

Journalist in New York (4,2,3,5) -> It's somehow italian-translated...
Straight Line (5'1,5) -> Try to draw a line on a sheet...
Draw chess match (7,2,"3,5",2,5) -> Where do you play chess?
The rafter (7,5) -> He goes through... a false derivation!
The ex-parachuter (7,6) -> When he was still active, he...
The hop (8,2,1,5) -> Hop is mostly used for...
Diameter (1,5,5) -> In geometry, it's a....

Go on and solve them!

P.S. All articles are ovivians....

[sario]

Straight Line (5'1,5) -> ruler's right?