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!
What are your thoughts on this subject?
434 Comments
Corey Taylor
What do you have up there, Toronto minutes? ;-)
mikeyparry
18/21. Should have done better!
Corey Taylor
"In a New York minute... everything can change."
--Don Henley,1989
thehangers
#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!
Lupe Hernandez
It's beat around the bush, not run around the bush.
Lupe Hernandez
Arun Visvanathan, Beat around the bush is common in America
Cheryl Love
Arun Visvanathan, we do have history classes in school, she said dryly.
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.