Most People Can’t Complete These 15 English Phrases — Can You? 
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You are playing as a guest. Sign in to save your progress & unlock rewards!People often use proverbs and idioms (or variations of them) in daily conversation without thinking. They are so ingrained in the English language that many of them have also become cliches. This is because some of these famous sayings have been around for centuries.
Many of these snappy phrases often relate to things like handling money, love, work, loss, friendship, status, health and other things that all people are concerned with on a regular basis. You've probably heard a ton of them in everyday life, even if you weren't sure what they all meant.
So how well do you know your sayings? How many of those proverbs can you complete? A stitch in time saves how many? What is necessity the mother of? What a day keeps the doctor away? Take this quiz to find out just how well-versed you are on famous phrases ranging from the everyday to the obscure.
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12/15. Thought I know all of these but few never heard of. Must guessed wrong
I got 14 out of 15!
Wow! Would you happen to be an English professor? You aced this quiz like a genius.
Haste makes ______.
I got 14 out of 15!
Wow! Would you happen to be an English professor? You aced this quiz like a genius.
I am a professor of English literature
I got 13 out of 15!
Wow! Would you happen to be an English professor? You aced this quiz like a genius.
Not so great.
13/15
I got 15 out of 15!
Wow! Would you happen to be an English professor? You aced this quiz like a genius.
Well, I am a writer and, until recently, taught English in my spare time.
13/15 86% Never heard of the 2 missed, guessed wrong of course, doubt I’ll remember them, not something you hear people say much nowadays. Except perhaps for the one you hear men say to one another about punching above one’s weight when they have a very attractive partner, Lol.
11/15 great quiz
I got 15 out of 15!
Wow! Would you happen to be an English professor? You aced this quiz like a genius.
You are not the only one Yvonnne!!!
I got 10 out of 15 – 66%
Wow! Would you happen to be an English professor? You aced this quiz like a genius.
The 5 I got WRONG I`ve never heard of before.
19 / 9 / 25
11/15……I’m an English Professor 😅😅
I got 14 out of 15!
Wow! Would you happen to be an English professor? You aced this quiz like a genius.
I am an English literature professor ..
15/15. I could have done that one typing the answers in instead of multiple choice. Doesn’t make me really smart, just lucky to get a quiz in one of my favourite things, words.
15/15
Wow! Would you happen to be an English professor? You aced this quiz like a genius.
I got 7 out of 15!
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