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Quiz about Horses for Courses Idiomatically Speaking

Horses for Courses - Idiomatically Speaking! Quiz

This quiz is all about the idiomatic use of the word 'horse'! Can you pick the correct 'horsey' phrase from the meaning given? All multiple choice.

A multiple-choice quiz by Engadine. Estimated time: 3 mins.

Author
Engadine

Time
3 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
110,194

Updated
Dec 03 21

# Qns
10

Difficulty
Easy

Avg Score
9 / 10

Plays
7984

Awards
Top 35% Quiz

Last 3 plays: icequeen3 (10/10), Chinook1 (9/10), TriviaFan22 (10/10).

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Question 1 of 10

1. To perform a series of tasks in the wrong order is to do what? Hint

Put the horse before the cart

Put the cart before the horse

Look a gift horse in the mouth

Flog a dead horse

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Question 2 of 10

2. A circumstance or a topic that is very different from what you had first thought it would be, is what?
Hint

Shutting the stable door after the horse has bolted

Getting on your high horse

A horse of a different colour

A one-horse race

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Question 3 of 10

3. If someone gets angry about a particular subject and starts criticising other people just because they think they are better or more clever, they are said to be doing what? Hint

Looking a gift horse in the mouth

Getting on their high horse

Getting off their high horse

Backing the wrong horse

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Question 4 of 10

4. Wasting time trying to achieve something that you know will not succeed is said to be doing what? Hint

Flogging a dead horse

Backing the wrong horse

Being a charley horse

Being a Trojan horse

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Question 5 of 10

5. If you get information from someone who is directly involved in something and therefore knows a lot about it, you are said to be doing what? Hint

Having good horse sense

Shutting the stable door after the horse has bolted

Getting it straight from the horse's mouth

Getting off your high horse

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Question 6 of 10

6. If you consume a lot at a meal, you are said to do what? Hint

Eat three horses

Back the wrong horse

Lead a horse to water

Eat like a horse

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Question 7 of 10

7. Giving someone every opportunity to do something, but not being able to force them to do it if they don't really want to, is said to be doing what? Hint

Backing the wrong horse

Getting on your high horse

Shutting the stable door after the horse has bolted

Leading a horse to water

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Question 8 of 10

8. If you're very hungry you could do what? Hint

Eat with a horse

Eat a horse

Be a dark horse

Be a charley horse

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Question 9 of 10

9. If you criticise something or feel doubtful about something that is really a good chance or offer, you are said to be doing what?
Hint

Backing the wrong horse

Getting off your high horse

Putting the cart before the horse

Looking a gift horse in the mouth

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Question 10 of 10

10. Trying to stop something from happening when it has actually already happened and cannot be changed, is said to be like doing what? Hint

Shutting the stable door after the horse has bolted

Having horse sense

Backing the wrong horse

Leading a horse to water

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. To perform a series of tasks in the wrong order is to do what?

Answer: Put the cart before the horse

If you decide what to wear before you've even been invited to a party you could be accused of putting the cart before the horse, don't you agree?

2. A circumstance or a topic that is very different from what you had first thought it would be, is what?

Answer: A horse of a different colour

If you said you didn't like going to the movies just because you couldn't afford it, well, that's a horse of a different colour!

3. If someone gets angry about a particular subject and starts criticising other people just because they think they are better or more clever, they are said to be doing what?

Answer: Getting on their high horse

A good example would be rabbiting on against single parents. You can't force people to get married and as such you'd be getting on your high horse!

4. Wasting time trying to achieve something that you know will not succeed is said to be doing what?

Answer: Flogging a dead horse

You'd be flogging a dead horse trying to persuade someone who really hates to travel to go overseas, even for a holiday!

5. If you get information from someone who is directly involved in something and therefore knows a lot about it, you are said to be doing what?

Answer: Getting it straight from the horse's mouth

If someone assures you that so-and-so has handed in their resignation at work and they say they got it straight from the horse's mouth means they were told by the resignee, so they believe it must be true!

6. If you consume a lot at a meal, you are said to do what?

Answer: Eat like a horse

Eating like a horse means you always eat a lot of food - "She eats like a horse, so I don't know how she manages to stay so thin!" If you are very hungry, you might say, "I could eat a horse!" -- but not that you are eating one. Another expression with a similar meaning is to say that one eats like a pig.

7. Giving someone every opportunity to do something, but not being able to force them to do it if they don't really want to, is said to be doing what?

Answer: Leading a horse to water

If you made travel arrangements, bought tickets and even took someone to the airport, but they just wouldn't get on the plane would be leading a horse to water, and furthermore, not being able to make them drink!

8. If you're very hungry you could do what?

Answer: Eat a horse

If you've eaten nothing all day - you could probably eat a horse, and in some countries they actually do still eat horses!

9. If you criticise something or feel doubtful about something that is really a good chance or offer, you are said to be doing what?

Answer: Looking a gift horse in the mouth

If someone tells you not to look a gift horse in the mouth, they mean that whatever chance you've been given or whatever you've been offered may not necessarily be the answer to your prayers but it would be a darn sight better than nothing!

10. Trying to stop something from happening when it has actually already happened and cannot be changed, is said to be like doing what?

Answer: Shutting the stable door after the horse has bolted

Pumping up your security after a major theft would seem to be a bit like shutting the stable door after the horse has bolted! (with thanks for all definitions to the Cambridge International Dictionary of Idioms!)

Source: Author Engadine

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