Do You Know The 21 Most Common American Idioms?

#4...never heard anything about my "last" nerve. Always been trying my nerves...hmmmm, might have been "trying my patience", which would have been a good one for this quiz. So glad there were answers. A fun little quiz!

It's beat around the bush, not run around the bush.

Arun Visvanathan, Beat around the bush is common in America

Arun Visvanathan, we do have history classes in school, she said dryly.

Arun Visvanathan, Some of us Americans don't live in a shoe.

Many of these are used in England too

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.

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.

21/21! Used several of them in my life time.

I don't think I've ever heard any say, "how the hog ate the cabbage."

21/21. Not American, but they are pretty much universal just a little thought needed.

21-21. Didn't miss any. Wow

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.

18 / 21. Not heard of some of these, but I am not American!

I've always heard #13 as "BEATING around the bush", meaning you're being indirect and wordy.