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Nov 20, 2017, 04:53 PM
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According to the accompanying article 91% of people can't complete these phrases. I got a perfect score. I'm baffled that anyone who speaks American English as their first language would not know these.
 91% of people can't complete all these common phrases... Can you? | HowStuffWorks |
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Nov 20, 2017, 05:20 PM
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I was worried I wouldn't be able to finish as it kept reloading......but I did! 100%.
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Nov 21, 2017, 10:14 PM
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Well, that was an amusing little diversion. I scored 35/35 here too. It seems a pretty easy quiz if you grew up immersed in the language. Probably the 9% simply come from places with really bad subtitles and closed-captioning.
 The only one I found odd was "hit the hay". It was obvious, but I've always heard "hit the sack". And the pigs fly expression always reminds me of the old engineering corollary: "With sufficient thrust, pigs fly just fine." |
| eskielover, lizardlady, unaluna
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Nov 22, 2017, 01:23 AM
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I got them all. I was a little horrified—I didn’t know the origin of kick the bucket.
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Nov 22, 2017, 05:18 AM
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I got 27/35 the ones I got wrong I had no idea what they were.
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Nov 22, 2017, 09:54 PM
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35/35 here too....some real old time idioms. Enjoy idioms & where they come from.
Always enjoyed learning the Spanish idioms in spanish class. First one for that was: "En boca cerada, no entra mosca." In a closed mouth no fly will enter.
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Nov 24, 2017, 11:41 AM
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Don't know why it won't let me get beyond the first one.
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Nov 25, 2017, 09:37 AM
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I got 33/35. They were pretty easy on the whole!
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Nov 25, 2017, 06:20 PM
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100%! Could it be we older ones know them but younger generations don't? (Well, I'm in my sixties---maybe at least age thirty or more? Just a thought...)
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| lizardlady
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Nov 26, 2017, 03:08 PM
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