Friday, August 14, 2015

Don't Count Your Chickens...


This week's quiz comes from Oxford Dictionaries. They've given us the first half of 10 "common" English phrases. Okay, okay, most of them are common. A couple of them I'd never heard before.

Complete the Phrase


I got a respectable 80%. Two of those phrases I'd never heard before. Or it might have been three, and I just made one really lucky guess. 

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  1. I did poorly...the devil phrases did me in. I had never heard some of those.

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    1. Yeah, I think those were the ones I missed.

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  2. I got an 80% too. The last two I had never heard of. "Accidents will happen" and "needs" must were completely new.

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  3. 60% for me

    Sunni

    http://sunni-survivinglife.blogspot.com/

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  4. 80% not too bad! I'm old though :)

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  5. I got 70%. Shoulda gone with my instinct on two of them.

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  6. I too got 80% and like you, there were a couple I hadn't heard of before

    betty

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  7. I got 90%. Finally - a test that doesn't make me feel stupid! ;0)

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    1. There's a fine line--it has to be kind of fun but a little challenging.

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  8. I did a whopping 70%. I have never heard the complete versions of a couple of those until today.

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    1. Yeah, a few of those you only hear the first half most of the time.

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  9. Woo hoo! 90%. There was only one phrase where I knew the first half but not the second.

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  10. I only got 70% . I should have paid attention to the ones with the Devil!!

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  11. I got 80% too. A couple of these might be used in England but not in the states. I almost posted this quiz this week!

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  12. I got 80%, too. A couple of these I knew but with different "second halves". Alana ramblinwitham.blogspot.com

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    1. Some of them I'd only ever heard the first half.

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