@oswaldoramosferrusola5235 It is literally a cheque/check that you received from your travel agent if it continually rained at your vacation destination, forcing you to cancel your trip (after paying). It was a credit you could use to book a new vacation.
@@tobyfitzpatrick3914 I need a snow cheque then. My Kalamazoo to Denver trip never happened, because the Detroit to Chicago leg that stops in Kalamazoo, never left Detroit as it was snowed in that day, which ruined my trip, and Greyhound never did remunerate me for their failed trip. $450.
Yes! I don't agree with that one, it really doesn't mean reject an offer, politely or otherwise. I thought C, to decline an offer, was closer than reject an offer. I didn't count it as wrong since *they* have it wrong.
@@oswaldoramosferrusola5235 it comes from baseball matches, twhen a match is cancelled for heavy rain they give a rain check to the attendants to come to the next match
The meaning of "Bite the dust", is to die. Literally, this comes from Old West gunfights, where the person who was slower or had worse aim would end up in the dust.
And of course everyone remembers the Queen's super song;"Another one bites the dust"!...I think that in this song,the idiom means:dead!I'm not quite sure of that...Anyone knows something better than my opinion?I'd like to know,if I'm mistaken!..❤️👏❤️👏❤️Love the quiz!
It would be interesting if they included the origin of the phrase. For example, take a rain check originated with baseball games where if the game was stopped because of rain, the ticket holders would get a rain check that entitled them to see a later game without paying. It later morphed into stores offering rain checks if an advertised product sold out. Customers would be able to get the product at the sale price at a later time. It then became an expression of regret for not being able to accept an invitation due to unavoidable circumstances and a desire to accept future invitations of a similar nature.
To bite the dust means to die, and to take a rain check is to decline an invite for another time. 30/30 for me but I just guessed correctly on those two.
That's wonderful! It's great to hear that you've saved it to track your granddaughter's progress. It's amazing that you grew up speaking English from birth-sounds like a beautiful multilingual background! 😊❤
Thats how I've always used it, even the example points to invitation, nothing to do with no damn offer, sounds like a business transaction, though it could be used in that text also.
❤ thanks a lot. This group of quizzes turned out easier than usual. I am glad of my 29/30. I only missed the rain check one. I thought it mean't to take some time to think about and not to kindly refuse. Take care and carry on
Great quiz 76years old had to think a bit not as bright as I used to be the grey matter in ma brain is no working as good as it used to got them all right thanks for this keep it going 😂😂😂🎉🎉🎉🎉❤❤❤❤
Brazilian here. 29 right. MIstake was question about Take a rain check, which I answered C) Decline an invitation instead of B) To politely reject an offer.
Exactly. English tongue is very generous with enjoyable idioms and all languages have theirs, but one only becomes familiar by living among the natives in the country in order to have them in mind at the right moment !..I am a French woman 87 years old but never tired of learning and appreciating colourful expressions !!
30 for 30 too easy. Hey... try this in your future videos... Place chapter stops at the start of each question and one two seconds before the answer rings in. That way folks can skip the ten second wait if they desire to do so.
This is quite difficult quiz, I remembered before, when I took the civil service examinations in our Country, it is almost similar with this, in the idiomatic expression category , you really have to think and there is a time allotment yhe passing is 75% over all general rating. I failed My rating is72% just a matter of 3 points , any way this is very challenging to us my score 25/ 30 Thanks a lot maam
@Susan, don’t be discouraged-each attempt helps you learn and grow. Scoring 25/30 on this quiz is impressive too! Keep challenging yourself, and I’m sure you’ll achieve great things. Best of luck in all your future endeavors! ❤👍
"To take a rain check" means more than just decline an offer. It also means that you will take up the offer some time in the future.
Quite frankly, I never heard that expression before.
@oswaldoramosferrusola5235 It is literally a cheque/check that you received from your travel agent if it continually rained at your vacation destination, forcing you to cancel your trip (after paying). It was a credit you could use to book a new vacation.
@@tobyfitzpatrick3914 I need a snow cheque then. My Kalamazoo to Denver trip never happened, because the Detroit to Chicago leg that stops in Kalamazoo, never left Detroit as it was snowed in that day, which ruined my trip, and Greyhound never did remunerate me for their failed trip. $450.
Yes! I don't agree with that one, it really doesn't mean reject an offer, politely or otherwise. I thought C, to decline an offer, was closer than reject an offer. I didn't count it as wrong since *they* have it wrong.
@@oswaldoramosferrusola5235 it comes from baseball matches, twhen a match is cancelled for heavy rain they give a rain check to the attendants to come to the next match
The meaning of "Bite the dust", is to die. Literally, this comes from Old West gunfights, where the person who was slower or had worse aim would end up in the dust.
It's not the literal meaning but it idiomatically means TO ACCEPT DEFEAT!
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@@stevemcdonald1033 And if you're falling off a horse, you bite the dust hard!
And of course everyone remembers the Queen's super song;"Another one bites the dust"!...I think that in this song,the idiom means:dead!I'm not quite sure of that...Anyone knows something better than my opinion?I'd like to know,if I'm mistaken!..❤️👏❤️👏❤️Love the quiz!
The meaning is circumstantial.
Both are correct.
As a native American English speaker, these are all commonly used expressions and are useful to know.
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It would be interesting if they included the origin of the phrase. For example, take a rain check originated with baseball games where if the game was stopped because of rain, the ticket holders would get a rain check that entitled them to see a later game without paying. It later morphed into stores offering rain checks if an advertised product sold out. Customers would be able to get the product at the sale price at a later time. It then became an expression of regret for not being able to accept an invitation due to unavoidable circumstances and a desire to accept future invitations of a similar nature.
I was wondering about this one, thanks for explaining it to us!
Exactly
"To get cold feet" means more than just be nervous. It means to actually want to withdraw from a specific activity.
I have hears cold flippers as well.
Exactly!
As a retired EFL teacher, I suspect a non-native speaker of English compiled this series of idioms.
@@1timbarrettwell at least it was easy also for a non native speaker
yeah like..she never showed up at the church , left him standing there ..embarassed in front of the guests!! lol the perfect example
25 I guess pretty good for a German native. Would've been two more if I had a few seconds more to think about, but I didn't wanna cheat
Cold feet means having doubts about finishing something, not nervous
Great work ! Thank u for teaching the meaning of all these idioms !
To bite the dust means to die, and to take a rain check is to decline an invite for another time. 30/30 for me but I just guessed correctly on those two.
Both are correct, but the more suitable one is to decline the invitation “ politely “
Bite the dust means to fail - not to die literally.
Very helpful . It’s a good system to 😮 remember the idioms easily . Thank you from Sofia, Bulgaria .
Thank you so much for the kind words, Sofia! I’m glad you found the system helpful for remembering idioms. Keep up the great work. ❤😊👍
These are essential for non-native speakers of English to know. Very common in the US, not sure about the UK, though.
Pretty common in the UK too. I lived in England for 8 years. I am not a native speaker
I had never heard "blow one's own trumpet" until just now and I'm 69 years old. I always heard it as "horn."
My most favorite phrase is “read the room”!
I became glad to know it, bcuz we have a phrase as “空気を読む”(“read the air”) in Japanese.
It's fantastic because in the movies they talk like that!
They do in real life too.
Read the room
Understand the situation
instinctual
Thanks for sharing the video on English Quiz.
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Got all right. Saved it so I can see how my granddaughter scores. We are english speaking South Africans. Spoke english since birth.❤
That's wonderful! It's great to hear that you've saved it to track your granddaughter's progress. It's amazing that you grew up speaking English from birth-sounds like a beautiful multilingual background! 😊❤
Amazing! You came right out of the womb, fluent in this language. Did you give the doctor a good cussing, for swatting your backside?
It would have been much more interesting if you included sources of the idiom along with their usage in sentences.
I got all 30 correct. “Piece of cake”; “Easy as pie”!
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Take a raincheck could also be decline an invitation in a way.....
Thats how I've always used it, even the example points to invitation, nothing to do with no damn offer, sounds like a business transaction, though it could be used in that text also.
@@jamesmatheson5115that’s the one I got wrong.
that's why the one with an offer covers all the situations. Don't you get it?
Decline an invitation but will accept another one in the future.
Indeed, useful for 2nd language learners!... As a native speaker, these are commonly used.
27 .....not bad for a French native, and I learned something today. Thank you
I'm French too and also got 27😊
Comme belge j'ai 26 ;-)
26 for Russian native
thanks for sharing the video Quiz I enjoy it and learn🎉
Thanks for taking the quiz. Glad you enjoyed it. ❤️👍
Got them all right. God Bless everyone
Great job, Jennifer! Thank you for taking the quiz. ❤💯👍
I knew every one of them...very common.
Believe me. English is actually very easy but Idioms make it complex
No english is hard
I got 30/30. But bite the dust doesn't mean to fail...it means to die.
I believe select the one most similar.
I got 24/30. Many Thanks!
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To pass the buck
Shift blame?
❤ thanks a lot. This group of quizzes turned out easier than usual. I am glad of my 29/30. I only missed the rain check one. I thought it mean't to take some time to think about and not to kindly refuse.
Take care and carry on
Swede.. got all 30 but i never heard of Glove in hand, and Hit the roof. Used logic on them two.
Excellent
I imagine this quiz would be more difficult for people who are really just learning English.
30/30 and all I got was “Thanks for watching “😊
🍖ok take this from me 😁
Good job
What were you expecting? I also got 30/30.
Great
Great quiz 76years old had to think a bit not as bright as I used to be the grey matter in ma brain is no working as good as it used to got them all right thanks for this keep it going 😂😂😂🎉🎉🎉🎉❤❤❤❤
❤️❤️❤️👏👏👏👍👍👍
Thank you! I have learnt a lot from it🙏🙏🙏
Got ‘em all right 😅. Yea!
To take a rain check also means to decline an invitation for the moment: "May I take a rain check on this?"
yeah and they used it in the example lol
the one with an offer covers more situations
Brazilian here. 29 right. MIstake was question about Take a rain check, which I answered C) Decline an invitation instead of B) To politely reject an offer.
Polite way of saying "I'll think about it before I say no".
Very happy
spill the beans / go cold turkey / close shave / fit as a fiddle /
a dime a dozen / jump the gun / pass the buck
I got 29 correct. I did not get " jump the gun ". Loved the quiz.
Thanks
Thank you for teasing my brain
I am now a U.S. citizen. Woohoo!
What about. The meaning of “ cry over spilled milk “ ?
“ head over heels “
“ I’m so hungry….i could eat a cow”
“ hit the road “
Exactly. English tongue is very generous with enjoyable idioms and all languages have theirs, but one only becomes familiar by living among the natives in the country in order to have them in mind at the right moment !..I am a French woman 87 years old but never tired of learning and appreciating colourful expressions !!
Hit the roof!! It's also "hit the fan"!!!
30 for 30 too easy. Hey... try this in your future videos... Place chapter stops at the start of each question and one two seconds before the answer rings in. That way folks can skip the ten second wait if they desire to do so.
I was waiting for Kick the bucket !😁
29/30...never heard of close shave which if I would have put more thought into this i could have answered correctly 😊
Thanks. I only speak English so it was easy.
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Hi There. 100% today!! ( two guesses ) Thank you, really enjoyed the quiz. Keep well.
B
A
A
B
C
This was a piece of cake.
30/30. Nothing thrills more than acing the quiz.
Wow, 30/30! That’s amazing! You’re a quiz master for sure. Keep up the great work! 💯❤👍
I like this video so much ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Thank you! ❤👍
30/30. Some of the definitions were a bit loose!
That's right.
I got 26 correct answers 🎉🎉🎉❤❤❤ English is not my native language, I am a Filipino 😊
Too easy!
From Sweden got them all right.
30/30 Great fun,, thank you!
Excellent job, Nic Grobler! 💯❤️
Thank you for taking today's challenge! 👍
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29 out of 30, going by their definitions.
30/30 I found this test of 30 very easy as all well known to me 😊🎉😊
I got 3 wrong because they were they were in American English, I would have done a lot better if it was British English.
nice one, although I disagree with Q28 - to take a raincheck.
25 as a Korean native.
Good job! ❤️👍
Great lesson, I got number 20,27 and 28 wrong
Ask Queen !
I got 21/30. I'm a refugee.
Take a rain check is to refuse an invitation but will do some other time
1. B
question 28 can also be "C", even as described in the sentence
Got all right 🎉🎉🎉 blow my trumpet.
I got all 30
26 correct
Hey English tests, it would be a great thing to teach the crowd the origins and/or first use of these idioms!
That's a great idea! 👍
Perfect
Thanks, some I never heard of as English is not my language, I missed 7
3. D.
Fantastic test.
This is American English which is most definitely different to English English! I am English English!
Well in am British English and got them all correct . I am sure most are British sayings
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21.A
20/20. Thank you once again. Ciao.
100% for me but bite the dust also means died.
Fantastic job! Keep up the good work! 💯❤️👍
All correct!!! It was too easy.
What is your first language?
Shoot the breeze
To have a casual conversation
25 D
I like this. I got 28/30 correct answers.💕👍
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29 out of 30. Dutch born iving in France
4.d
I loved it. Thanks a bunch❤
Well done! Glad you liked it! ❤️👍
This is quite difficult quiz, I remembered before, when I took the civil service examinations in our Country, it is almost similar with this, in the idiomatic expression category , you really have to think and there is a time allotment yhe passing is 75% over all general rating. I failed My rating is72% just a matter of 3 points , any way this is very challenging to us my score 25/ 30 Thanks a lot maam
@Susan, don’t be discouraged-each attempt helps you learn and grow. Scoring 25/30 on this quiz is impressive too! Keep challenging yourself, and I’m sure you’ll achieve great things. Best of luck in all your future endeavors! ❤👍
25/30. Not bad, and mot good...
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Nice
24/30 : not bad 👍🏻. I am going to subscribe to your channel😉
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