Braingle: 'Figures of Speech - Around the House' Trivia Quiz

Odds are, many of the subjects of these idioms are around you everyday. How many of them can you remember when it counts?

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Category:	Humanities > Linguistics
Created By:	Hrsemn4

#1 What household item is featured in an idiom that infers that you have considered every possibility or that you have done all you could?

Toilet
Cabinet
Kitchen sink
Shower curtain

#2 According to the idiom, a person who gives unsolicited advice, or criticizes the decisions of others, especially on televised sporting events, will usually be seated where? (Hint: this person may be called a type of "quarterback".)

Armchair
Couch
Toilet seat

#3 To catch someone in the act of wrongdoing is to catch them with their "hand in the ________".

Cupboard
Cookie jar
Wall safe
Underwear drawer

#4 The hand that "rules the world" does what else around the house?

Cooks the meals
Washes the dishes
Rocks the cradle
Folds the laundry

#5 Once you are "out of the frying pan", where do you go next?

Into the fire
Onto the platter
Out of the window
Splattered on the floor; now who's gonna clean that up?

#6 Getting paid secretly, illicitly, or to avoid taxes is referred to as being paid ___ _ _____.

Over the counter
Under the table
On the barrelhead
In the toolshed

#7 "Cutting a rug" is an idiom referring to redecorating.

True
False

#8 Other than getting cleaned up, what does it mean to "take a bath"?

To deny responsibility
To start fresh
To take a large monetary loss

#9 When asking someone to pause what they are doing, you may tell them to "hold the _____".

Door
Phone
Light switch
Pickles, onion, and tomato

#10 Ever the bane of politicians, a hidden source of shame or embarrassment may be referred to as "a _______ in the closet".

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Figures of Speech - Around the House

#1 What household item is featured in an idiom that infers that you have considered every possibility or that you have done all you could?

#2 According to the idiom, a person who gives unsolicited advice, or criticizes the decisions of others, especially on televised sporting events, will usually be seated where? (Hint: this person may be called a type of "quarterback".)

#3 To catch someone in the act of wrongdoing is to catch them with their "hand in the ________".

#4 The hand that "rules the world" does what else around the house?

#5 Once you are "out of the frying pan", where do you go next?

#6 Getting paid secretly, illicitly, or to avoid taxes is referred to as being paid ___ _ _____.

#7 "Cutting a rug" is an idiom referring to redecorating.

#8 Other than getting cleaned up, what does it mean to "take a bath"?

#9 When asking someone to pause what they are doing, you may tell them to "hold the _____".

#10 Ever the bane of politicians, a hidden source of shame or embarrassment may be referred to as "a _______ in the closet".

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Figures of Speech - Around the House

#1 What household item is featured in an idiom that infers that you have considered every possibility or that you have done all you could?

#2 According to the idiom, a person who gives unsolicited advice, or criticizes the decisions of others, especially on televised sporting events, will usually be seated where? (Hint: this person may be called a type of "quarterback".)

#3 To catch someone in the act of wrongdoing is to catch them with their "hand in the ________".

#4 The hand that "rules the world" does what else around the house?

#5 Once you are "out of the frying pan", where do you go next?

#6 Getting paid secretly, illicitly, or to avoid taxes is referred to as being paid _____ ___ _____.

#7 "Cutting a rug" is an idiom referring to redecorating.

#8 Other than getting cleaned up, what does it mean to "take a bath"?

#9 When asking someone to pause what they are doing, you may tell them to "hold the _____".

#10 Ever the bane of politicians, a hidden source of shame or embarrassment may be referred to as "a _______ in the closet".

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#6 Getting paid secretly, illicitly, or to avoid taxes is referred to as being paid ___ _ _____.