The Proverbs, Sayings, and Adages Quiz

Proverbs, sayings, and adages...we hear them all the time, but do you really know them?

Take this quiz on them and find out if you really know what a bird in the hand is worth and what you could be caught between.

Don't forget to have your friends take the quiz to compare and see who is the best.

Did you take the adages quiz? How did you do? Get any of the questions right? Remember all of the sayings correctly? Check the answer below that matches you.

A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush

Caught between a rock and a hard place

Just fell off the turnip truck

As easy as falling off a log

Can't see the forest for the trees

Home is where the heart is

If it ain't broke, don't fix it

Looking for a needle in a haystack

Like two peas in a pod

It's as clear as mud

What is a bird in the hand worth?

• An arrow
• A happy thought
• A meal
• Two in the bush
• An egg

A bird in the hand is not worth an arrow, a happy thought, a meal, or an egg, it is worth two in the bush.

Until you actually have a bird in your hand, it isn't worth much since you may not actually be able to get the birds that are in the bush. A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush means that a sure thing is better than the possibility of more.

Caught between a rock and what?

• A tough jock
• A fun party
• A wonderful thought
• An unanticipated drama
• A hard place

The saying is being caught between a rock and a hard place and it means to be in a tough spot with nowhere to go. If you are trapped between two impossible choices, you are really stuck. You can't tunnel through the rock and in the other direction there is a hard place which you can't get through either. If you are stuck between a rock and a hard place there's no way to escape.

When someone seems naïve, we usually say they just fell off this vegetable delivery vehicle.

• The rutabaga wagon
• The turnip truck
• The squash sedan
• The cantaloupe car
• The potato pickup

Although a rutabaga wagon or a squash sedan would be pretty cool, people that are naive as said to have just fallen off of a turnip truck. It's a way of saying someone seems like a country bumpkin who must have just ridden into town with the harvest.

When something is really easy, we say it's as easy as what?

• Sliding down a slope
• Jumping over a ditch
• Hopping over a tree
• Falling off a log
• Laying down the law

Logs are often sharply curving and covered in moss and gunk, so they're really slippery and easy to fall off of. So when something is super easy to do, we say that it's as easy as falling off a log.

The strange coincidence of this saying is that it almost always ends up the opposite of easy when used. People say this as reassurance that something is easy to do, and it ends up much more difficult than expected.

What do they say you can't see because the details are in your way?

• Can't see the forest for the trees
• Can't see the herd for the goats
• Can't see tomorrow for today
• Can't see the scores for the game
• Can't see the tree for the leaves

When you can only see details and not the whole picture, they say you can't see the forest for the trees.

Home is where what is?

• Home is where tomorrow is
• Home is where all your stuff is
• Home is where the tornado hit
• Home is where the heart is
• Home is where you live

Home is where you keep your stuff and where you live, hopefully it's not where the tornado hit and instead is where your tomorrow is, but the saying is that home is where the heart is. It means your family is where your heart resides. Traveling and visiting places is nice, but there is no replacing that one place where you can alwys go and be yourself, home.

If something ain't broke, don't what?

• Fix it
• Trouble yourself
• Worry
• Be happy
• Sell it

If it ain't broke, don't fix it. This saying means don't start meddling with something if there's nothing wrong with it. Many times if you start messing with something you will break it even if it wasn't broken before. So, if something is working fine and not in need of repair, don't meddle with it in case you do something that causes it to go wrong.

When something is tough to find we say looking for it is like what?

• Looking for a horse in a herd
• Looking for a doll in a toy shop
• Looking for a needle in a haystack
• Looking for a clock in a warehouse
• Looking for a marble in a swimming pool

Looking for a needle in a haystack is the idiom. It means to look for something almost impossible to find. A needle is smaller than a piece of straw, and it is a similar shape, so if you were trying to find a needle in a big pile of hay there is very little way to find it other than just looking for nearly forever.

When things are similar, we say they are as alike as two peas in a what?

• Casserole dish
• Pod
• Can
• Tummy
• Garden

Two peas in a pod are grown together and are nearly identical. They look the same shape and size and probably even taste the same. So when we want to say things are twins, we say they are two peas in a pod.

When something is confused, we say it is as clear as what?

• Gravel
• Mud
• Water
• Glass
• Happiness

The adage is that it is as clear as mud. Obviously, mud is not clear, it is very hard to see through and one of the least clear things there are. Thus when we want to say something is not clear at all, we say it is as clear as mud.