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What saying is represented by the following?
CRE$12TASE
ASHASH
CRE$12TASE
ASHASH
Answer
Money doesn't grow on trees.Money <== "$"
doesn't <== "12T" ("12" = dozen + "T"), and these ("$12T") are...
grow <== in the word "CREASE", i.e. inCREASE = grow, and all of these ("CRE$12TASE") are...
on <== on:
trees <== "ASHASH" ("ASH"s i.e. ash trees)
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Yikes! Never, ever would have gotten this one. There was some real creativity going on here though. This was very original.
I really liked the first for characters explained in the answer. That is just good direct rebusing (new word). After that, it gets pretty abstract. It's hard to come up with new rebus puzzle after all these years! This one is definitely new.
Good job, TFF!
I really liked the first for characters explained in the answer. That is just good direct rebusing (new word). After that, it gets pretty abstract. It's hard to come up with new rebus puzzle after all these years! This one is definitely new.
Good job, TFF!
Thanks Snowdog. My overall teaser difficulty rating is pretty low, so at least this helps to bump it up a bit. This saying has been done before in earlier rebuses, but I like "rebusing" so much, I wanted to do my own take on it. Thanks for your comments!
Fun difficult teaser; very cleverly created; I did not get it - I could not get trees from ashes.
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