Okay, all. Once a week I get an email with the origin of one English phrase a week, courtesy of this fellow. You are able to subscribe to receive these emails from that page, or you can click here. It’s about halfway down the page. Apparently, once a year a quiz is sent out testing whether people know why we say the things we do.
Behold, the quiz!
I took the quiz, and realized how many of them I didn’t know. I should caution the potential quiz-takers out there – it is a British website, and as such a number of the expressions are entirely unfamiliar to us. It was fun guessing the ones I hadn’t heard of.
Sadly, I cannot report superior test results; I scored a 76% on the quiz. It was rather hit-or-miss for me.
I hope you enjoy!
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