How the Random English Idiom Quiz Works
The quiz pulls idioms at random from its pool and builds as many questions as you ask for. There are two directions: read the meaning and name the idiom, or read the idiom and explain what it means. Ask for one to ten questions at a time. Answers start hidden behind question marks and appear when you press the Show Answers button, so you can test yourself honestly, then reveal everything at once for a class or a family round.
What is in the pool
Only everyday idioms with a settled, widely agreed meaning are included, the kind that show up in ordinary conversation rather than in regional slang. Expressions whose meaning shifts between dialects were left out on purpose, because a study aid with a wrong gloss in it is worse than a shorter list. Etymologies and origin stories are not included either; each answer is a short working definition of the sort a test would accept.
How the draw works
The pool is shuffled with the Fisher-Yates algorithm and the first entries become your questions, so no idiom repeats inside one round and every idiom is equally likely to come up. Remembering earlier rounds to avoid repeats across them is not supported, so draw again if you see a familiar one. Asking for a number outside one to ten stops the draw and shows a message.
Frequently Asked Questions
They start hidden behind question marks and appear when you press Show Answers. Pressing it again hides them, which works well when several people take turns.
No. The pool is shuffled and the front of it is used, so nothing repeats inside a single round.
Origin stories are not supported. Many of them are disputed, so only a short settled definition is given for each idiom.