Riddle No. 178

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Riddle No. 178

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Your challenge, should you undertake
Is to find three pairs I can make

I can be paired with stringy food
If Asian cuisine suits your mood

I can be paired with a head bone
If so, to injury we're prone

Paired with a horizontal plane
We artificially constrain

The above three pairs stem from me

Have you a clue what I might be ?


Answer will be provided next Thursday evening after 21:00.

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Re: Riddle No. 178

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I am the word "glass".

I can be paired with the three words "noodles", "jaw", and "ceiling" to form the following phrasal nouns:

Glass noodles - a type of noodle popular in Asia
Glass jaw - someone with a glass jaw has a jaw which is susceptible to injury
Glass ceiling - a barrier to professional advancement which is created by discrimination, and therefore is artificial.

All of the phrasal nouns consist of two words, each having a common first word, "glass", and a different second word.

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