Top 1000 Idioms Test
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What are idioms? Idioms are groups of words established by usage as having a meaning not deducible from those of the individual words.

Idiomatic phrases enrich our use of language and register. 

E.g. Under the weather, Ball is in your court, etc.

This big quiz on idioms covers the top 1000 idioms.
 

Top 1000 Idioms Test
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25 Questions

1. To Cast A Slur Upon

2. Make Short Work Of Something

3. As Swift As An Arrow

4. Go Under The Hammer

5. To Cut The Crackle

6. Cog In The Wheel

7. Know Different/Otherwise

8. In A Jiffy

9. In The Long Run

10. To Have/Get/Hold/(Grant Someone) The Floor

11. To Cut Both Ends

12. Too Fond Of Her Own Voice

13. Keep Up Appearances

14. As Bounteous As Nature

15. Hell For Leather

16. Put A Spoke In Somebody's Wheel

17. Take Bull By Horns

18. Bandy Words

19. Hole And Corner

20. Walk A Tightrope

21. Take Up The Cudgels For

22. To Back Spear

23. Like A Bat Out Of Hell

24. Go/Get Into A Huddle&Nbsp;

25. Bury The Hatchet