Do You Know The 21 Most Common American Idioms?
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Test your idiom knowledge! Let's find out how many you know!
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Johnny Rock
Arun Visvanathan, Some of us Americans don't live in a shoe.
Ellen Duff
Many of these are used in England too
Eve
20/21 - We use many of these in Canada as well...except maybe the New York minute - that one just seems to make sense as I've heard it used in some tv shows I've seen.
mikeyparry
19 / 21. Hip, hip, hurrah! You're an idiom expert! I am not American so the two I got wrong I have never come across before! Some are in common use in the UK.
Francie Carlson
21/21! Used several of them in my life time.
Tom Knox
I don't think I've ever heard any say, "how the hog ate the cabbage."
Jetty Newnham
21/21. Not American, but they are pretty much universal just a little thought needed.
mutti
21-21. Didn't miss any. Wow
Arun Visvanathan
1 wrong due carelessness. Hadn't heard of some, but they are self explanatory. "Beating around the bush and "crossing the Rubicon" are definitely not American. I doubt if many Americans (present company excepted) would know where the Rubicon is or who crossed it.
mikeyparry
18 / 21. Not heard of some of these, but I am not American!
billyboy915
I've always heard #13 as "BEATING around the bush", meaning you're being indirect and wordy.
Desiree Rosema
19/21 Idiom expert!!!
Dane Kiddie
19/21 but i missed a couple as not american to understand their logic
marilynmitri
Never heard of that first one about the hog...Nevertheless, I got them all right.