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What we speak in vernacular will not make sense in English. The words will be in English but it will be like Greek to English speakers.
Some phrases in vernacular may mean quite a different thing from what comes out at face value. Though they may look like idiomatic expressions, they are not.
Outlined in this quiz are some of them. You just agree or refute the statement. Enjoy the journey with me. Bon voyage.
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“To dry eyes for somebody” is “to be rude to an elder”
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Yes
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No
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“To untie yourself” is “to cut yourself loose”
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Yes
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No
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“To sleep like that” is |to eat something else rather than hard porridge or corncake”
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Yes
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No
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“To have a hot stomach” is “to have stomachache”
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Yes
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No
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“To eat from the same pot” is “two men to have love affair with one woman”
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Yes
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No
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“He will come this legs” means “he will come on foot”
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Yes
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No
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“She slept out” means “literally not sleeping in a house”
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Yes
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No
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“To have a stomach” is
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To be hungry
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To have appetite
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To be pregnant
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To have stomachache
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“He has eaten a book” means
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He is educated
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He is a great novel reader
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He slept on an empty stomach
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To feed on books
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To dance with grass.
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Foolishness
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Dancing anyhowly
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Doing what you are sent
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Delay
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Only got 6 on this one. Good!
I got 8 out of 10 Really nice
Not so bad lol
I got 8 out of 10 I enjoy it
Great marks my friend. Thanks
I got 8 out of 10 congrats to me I enjoy it
A trial and thank you for trying
Not good at it. I only got 3.
I got half, mostly by guessing.
Mostly we guess here
4/10 but I learned lots! Thanks for these quizzes, my friend 🙂
I appreciate your complementary
gereat adie nklgsda
Thanks very much.
Got 4 right, so not horrible; but not great either.
That is an improvement. We are almost to share a mouth
2 of 10; couldn’t get it! 🙁
You tried though. I got a zero in some others
I got only one right
At least you learnt something here
Got 3 out of 10 right!
Could be better
That is not bad my friend
Nice one – I didn’t know more than half the expressions~!
They are local and maybe it is me trying to make them international.
3 out of 10 right for me
You and I cannot share a mouth it seems
Got half! 🙂
You are almost making my vernacular your mouth