Test your knowledge on this language quiz and see if you can complete several of these popular phrases.
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You are playing as a guest. Sign in to save your progress & unlock rewards!The English language has a large number of idiomatic expressions, proverbs, and just generally popular slang words. How well do you know them? In particular, it's good to be able to understand the really common phrases because you hear them come up in everyday conversation all the time especially among English speakers. Many of these sayings are remembered and get repeated in writing, standing the test of time.
Test your knowledge on this language quiz and see if you can complete several of these commonly used phrases.
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28 Comments
I got 22 out of 22!
Congratulations! This quiz is tricky but you nailed it! You dominate the frequently weird, unruly English language. You may laugh but you’d be really surprised by how many people fall flat on their English knowledge with this quiz! Great job.
Try to reduce the number of answers where “hat” is correct.
21/22. Good always the one, not heard of some of these. Dont know which one got away
21/22. Good but always one that gets away
I got 19 out of 22!
Congratulations! This quiz is tricky but you nailed it! You dominate the frequently weird, unruly English language. You may laugh but you’d be really surprised by how many people fall flat on their English knowledge with this quiz! Great job.
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I got 22 out of 22!
I’ve never heard of the last two – must be US English expressions…
18/22 some of them I ain’t never heard of. 👍
20/22 m
19 22
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I got 22 out of 22!
Congratulations! This quiz is tricky but you nailed it! You dominate the frequently weird, unruly English language. You may laugh but you’d be really surprised by how many people fall flat on their English knowledge with this quiz! Great job.
There were two phrases I hadn’t heard before, one about a shark and the other about a sledgehammer.
I got …….20/22
22/22. I read a lot, all kinds of fiction from all eras. I pick up a lot of language that might not be used everyday.
I did pretty good I got 17/22 right
I got 21 out of 22!
Congratulations! This quiz is tricky but you nailed it! You dominate the frequently weird, unruly English language. You may laugh but you’d be really surprised by how many people fall flat on their English knowledge with this quiz! Great job.
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I got 22 out of 22!
Congratulations! This quiz is tricky but you nailed it! You dominate the frequently weird, unruly English language. You may laugh but you’d be really surprised by how many people fall flat on their English knowledge with this quiz! Great job.
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I am a professor of ENGLISH LITERATURE….
22/22
Congratulations! This quiz is tricky but you nailed it! You dominate the frequently weird, unruly English language. You may laugh but you’d be really surprised by how many people fall flat on their English knowledge with this quiz! Great job.
I got 21 out of 22!
Congratulations! This quiz is tricky but you nailed it! You dominate the frequently weird, unruly English language. You may laugh but you’d be really surprised by how many people fall flat on their English knowledge with this quiz! Great job.
This quiz has several dubious questions, with non-idiomatic phrases that I’ve never heard before. Also, one answer choice was used three times.
I got 18 out of 22!
Congratulations! This quiz is tricky but you nailed it! You dominate the frequently weird, unruly English language. You may laugh but you’d be really surprised by how many people fall flat on their English knowledge with this quiz! Great job.
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20/22 90%
I got 12 out of 22!
Congratulations! This quiz is tricky but you nailed it! You dominate the frequently weird, unruly English language. You may laugh but you’d be really surprised by how many people fall flat on their English knowledge with this quiz! Great job.
20/22
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20/22 Never heard of some and been around over 70 yrs.
20 / 22 90% Fairly easy, I`ve never heard of a couple of them. Whoever writes these quizzes, how about putting the whole question in the box, instead of having some of the letters missing.
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