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LIKE A HOUSE ON FIRE: A Quiz about House Idioms

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A quiz about the meaning of idioms involving houses. I give you the idiom, and you choose the correct meaning. Simple? Of course it is – now let’s see how well you do!

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  • Question of

    A basket house

    • A bar where musicians play and are paid money collected in a basket
    • A mental asylum
    • A home for the blind, where they weave basketry
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    A brick house

    • A very ugly woman
    • A well-built attractive female
    • A bank
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    They get on like a house on fire

    • They are always arguing
    • They are very warm, friendly people
    • They enjoy one another’s company very much
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    Go all round the houses

    • Collect money for a worthy cause
    • Do something in a complicated way
    • Speak in deep dialect
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    Headache house

    • Hospital
    • Pharmacy
    • Liquor store
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    House of many doors

    • Palace
    • Prison
    • A funfair ride where your car goes in and out of a series of doors
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    House of cards

    • Something likely to fail due to weak structure
    • Political intrigue
    • A casino
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    To bottom the house

    • To fill the cellar with wine
    • To go naked in the house
    • To thoroughly clean the house
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    To bring down the house

    • Evoke loud applause and cheers
    • Besmirch a family’s reputation
    • To add one or more extra storeys to a house
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    A house of ill fame

    • A hospital
    • A community of retired celebrities
    • A brothel
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    Who wears the pants in the house?

    • Who is the best dressed in the house?
    • Who is the boss in the house?
    • Who washes the laundry in the house?
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    I had a drink on the house

    • I attended the housewarming party
    • I sat on the roof while I had a drink
    • I had a free drink in the pub

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Written by Norman Darlo

51 Comments

  6. I laughed my head off! The last one really got me. lol Thank you Norman, these are by far better than my jokes. giggles I got two wrong, I couldn’t believe it! I learned two new ones. I got number 5 and number 3, I thought it meant arguing. : D

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    • Well I’m very happy you enjoyed, Kim! I usually try to leaven these things with a bit of humour 🙂 I’m stunned you didn’t know ‘like a house on fire’ – just goes to show that what we think is universal ain’t necessarily so 🙂

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  13. Hadn’t heard of the ones I got wrong, or we have a different meaning to it over here, eg: She/he is built like a brick shithouse. 😀
    Loved your humour, as usual. Nice way to start my day.

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      • Yes, we do. Probably too weird, often coming from the Viking age of the settlement 1000 years ago. Even folk today have totally forgotten the origin of them and really don’t understand the words anymore, but know how to use them.

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