Phrases from pastimes
If you spend too much time on your pastime, you're said to 'ride a hobby.' Can you identify the hobbies and games identified with these terms and expressions?
1. Trumping a trick
2. Pocketing a ball
3. Tickling the ivories
4. Advancing a peg
5. Slipping a stitch
6. Throwing a pot
7. Laying a wash
8. Passing to the left
9. Castling a king
10. Suckers and water sprouts
11. Forming a hierarchy
12. Fretting a note
13. Goal-sticking
14. Panning a subject
15. Stripping and staining
16. Wicking
17. Winding a bobbin
18. Cross-stitching
(1) bridge (taking a set of cards with a card of the highest value); (2) pool (sinking a shot); (3) piano playing (slang); (4) cribbage (moving along the cribbage board with a peg); (5) knitting (losing a stitch on the needle); (6) ceramics (shaping clay into a pot on a wheel); (7) painting (applying a light color to paper); (8) hearts (passing cards to an opponent); (9) chess (moving a king to another safer position); (10) gardening (long, vertical shoots); (11) solitaire (completing a sequence of cards by value); (12) guitar playing (holding down a string along a ridge to raise the tone); (13) kick-the-can (staying near the can that would set captured players free); (14) photography (moving the camera while the shutter is open); (15) furniture refinishing (taking off old stain - or paint - and restaining); (16) candlemaking (material for wicks); (17) sewing (putting thread on a spool); (18) embroidery (one stitch crossed over another, forming an X).