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Don't Clichés

According to cliché, there are some things one just shouldn't do. Fill in the blanks.
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First submittedMarch 30, 2011
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Cliche
Don't count your chickens before they hatch
Don't bite the hand that feeds you
Don't quit your day job
Don't rain on my parade
Don't throw the baby out with the bath water
Don't bring a knife to a gun fight
Don't judge a book by its cover
Don't burn the candle at both ends
Don't trust anyone over thirty
Don't look a gift horse in the mouth
Don't worry, be happy
Don't rock the boat
Cliche
Don't make mountain out of a molehill
Don't wear white after Labor Day
Don't hate the playa, hate the game
Don't spit into the wind
Don't throw good money after bad
Don't sweat the small stuff
Don't put the cart before the horse
Don't bite off more than you can chew
Don't put all your eggs in one basket
Don't take any wooden nickels
Don't go to bed angry
Don't gild the lily
Amiiville
+6
Level 15
Jan 29, 2014
I always thought it was anthill instead of molehill lol
akwildrose
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Level 51
Apr 12, 2015
I tried the same thing! I think maybe both are used. But thankfully, I remembered molehill.
McKenzieFam
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Level 63
Apr 5, 2022
i just thought it was 'mound'
QuizzerBros
+2
Level 66
Jan 1, 2023
I thought it was anthill too. Maybe could be accepted if others thought the same?
AndrewV
+5
Level 51
Feb 21, 2014
Why shouldn't you wear white after Labor Day? I've never heard this phrase
ThirdParty
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Level 45
Feb 21, 2014
Presumably for the same reason that you mustn't wear a straw hat after September 15. (The last time anybody broke that rule, we had the Straw Hat Riots of 1922, which is not an event anyone wants to see repeated. Fashion is serious business and must not be trifled with lightly.)
divantilya
+1
Level 37
Jul 6, 2018
The rule about not wearing white after labor day is strictly for those who live in states/countries that have changing climates. In the Caribbean and Miami, FL we wear white all year long.
ander217
+5
Level 75
Jul 8, 2014
It was a fashion rule from decades past. Ladies had to put away their white clothing, handbags and shoes after Labor Day, and could not wear them again until Easter. (Or Memorial Day in some places.) Don't ask me who made the rule or why we followed it, but even today I still cringe when I think about wearing white shoes after Labor Day. Coco Chanel was one of the few who got away with thumbing her nose at the "law".
cariad
+1
Level 42
Jun 1, 2015
So when's Labour Day?
ander217
+4
Level 75
Oct 19, 2016
Labor Day is the first Monday in September in the US. It honors workers, and is pretty much the unofficial end of summer. Pools close, kids are back in school, and the flip-flops go back in the closet until next year. (Except in the regions that are warm year-round.)
akwildrose
+2
Level 51
Apr 12, 2015
I've heard the phrase my whole life, never followed it, never cared, and never knew why. lol
TinklePork
+4
Level 62
Dec 22, 2016
What a rebel
kalbahamut
+1
Level 82
Apr 1, 2018
I thought it was because you weren't supposed to wear light colors, or worse, white, in the Fall and Winter. Bring them out again in the Spring. Not that there's anything objectively wrong with that just a silly fashion thing.
katybeth
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Level 67
Jan 1, 2023
People mentioned it was a fashion 'rule' but I think it originally had a practical reasoning. Once the weather turned cold things would be heated by fires, coal, etc so there was a lot more soot to be had. Also the roads were extra wet, muddy, slushy. Wearing light colors would have been a poor fashion choice anyway because they would have shown all the dirt.
nycbarb
+2
Level 44
Feb 21, 2014
Got them all except "don't hate the playa, hate the game". Drat!
DonTheLamplighter
+1
Level 84
Mar 28, 2017
Modern slang. Making people dumber one phrase at a time.
JB24
+3
Level 65
Feb 24, 2014
Don't hate the playa, hate the game?

Playa is Spanish for beach; player is one who plays a game.

Please could you amend the spelling. Thank you

joeythelemur
+18
Level 84
May 20, 2014
It's slang and correct in the context.
Sifhraven
+3
Level 67
Dec 7, 2018
Indeed my answer was beach, because I read it as playa. (My first language is not a romance one but a germanic one btw, so playa=beach isnt even that familiar to me)

It took me a while to see it as player and then I remembered the saying.

I dont see why it specifically has to be playa. I ve always heard it said as player. And yes, some "street-people" might pronounce it like that. But then you might write : tuh or tha /da playa, since it probably wouldnt be prounced as "the" either.

kalbahamut
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Level 82
Jul 15, 2019
even more confusing would be the phrase "don't hate the playa, hate the arena."
ColoHarpare
+4
Level 50
Apr 20, 2014
Everything I can find online that starts with "Don't hate the playa..." seems to replace "playa" with "player". Rap songs, Urban Dictionary, whatever. I think it's really "Don't hate the player, hate the game."
DonTheLamplighter
+3
Level 84
Mar 28, 2017
You're making the mistake of engaging your brain here. Unplug any vestige of intelligence, then try to be as lazy as is humanly possible, and you should be able to better grasp what goes into modern slang, which now passes for culture.
divantilya
+3
Level 37
May 3, 2017
No, IT IS NOT!

Instead of trying to find exceptions to the norm, why don't you just

admit you were mistaken, learn the correct phraseology and get on with your life! It is so TIRING to constantly, at the end of every quiz, to find a list of "Please accept(s)....!

Pearl2270
+4
Level 79
Sep 19, 2021
THANK YOU! This comment is old, but I agree. People are so self-important to think this site should painstakingly cater to their understanding of the world or to their language/culture/country every time they miss a question.

Like dude, you're on an English language website that is based on mostly American culture and YOU KNOW IT. Deal with it. Learn and grow when you miss the questions, or don't. But please stop leaving these types of comments!! Why would the creator of this quiz, who might not even speak Spanish at all, give any thought to how a common American slang word might be the same as a Spanish word and confuse Spanish-speaking people?!!!

Ugh, and don't even get me started on the "This quiz is too Americentric" comments.

b1094
+1
Level 68
May 5, 2022
Is =/= ought.
CrazyBug
+1
Level 71
Jun 25, 2019
Agree. For Spanish speakers, using "playa" is very confusing.
BiggieSmalls
+4
Level 73
Jan 1, 2023
why would it be confusing? The rest of it is in English so why would you just assume that the the word "playa" is spanish?
AlmostAGenius
+1
Level 80
Jan 1, 2023
Because playa is not an English word either way. I’m an English speaker and assumed it was Spanish.
EmRose
+1
Level 53
Apr 27, 2014
Where I'm from most people say "ant hills" but I've heard "mole hills" too. Just wasn't my first guess.
beccimoo
+7
Level 56
Nov 10, 2015
Woah!! Don't trust anyone over 30??!! Who the ....heck, says that? Seriously, I've never heard that.
ander217
+4
Level 75
Oct 19, 2016
Jack Weinberg. It was a catchphrase of the hippies in the 1960's.
kalbahamut
+4
Level 82
Mar 18, 2021
Now that all those hippies are in their 60s and 70s if not older I wonder how they feel about this.
Gokpor
+5
Level 60
Oct 1, 2021
Well now Jack Weinberg is over 30 too so they don't have to trust his advice anymore.
IsleAuHaulte
+1
Level 89
Jan 3, 2023
They now say never trust anyone between 30 and 70.
divantilya
+1
Level 37
Jul 6, 2018
If you've never heard if "Don't trust anyone over thirty" then you obviously have never seen "Wild in the Streets" with Christopher Jones. Try, it, you might like it!
notdatboy
+1
Level 20
Apr 15, 2024
I always thought it was 18!
Carry
+3
Level 63
Feb 2, 2016
I find it funny how some idioms are so different in other languages. "Don't make a mountain out of a molehill" e.g. is (translated to English from the German version): "Don't make an elephant out of a mosquito."
Sifhraven
+1
Level 67
Dec 7, 2018
It is the same in dutch, I tried hill first, later elephant and mosquito. And all types of words that would suggest some sort of hill/raised area. Mount, lump, I dont know...
theperiodictable
+1
Level 47
Dec 31, 2016
My mum used to say Don't cry over spilled milk!
Jarl5
+2
Level 68
Jul 8, 2017
Accept don't go to bed hungry?
Quizmaster
+4
Level ∞
Dec 10, 2022
If anything most people should probably go to bed hungry more often.
mdjones
+6
Level 43
Aug 17, 2017
Hmm, I've always heard it as 'Don't p*ss into the wind'... Got it nonetheless!
stone222
+2
Level 48
Oct 4, 2018
same here... lol
Sifhraven
+2
Level 67
Dec 7, 2018
Exactly!! I tried so many things you shouldnt spit in.. food, face, stream, river,

Even before I read the answers, but after I finished the quiz, I thought, if it was "piss" I would ve known the answer.. (thinking it would be a totally different saying)

IsleAuHaulte
+1
Level 89
Jan 3, 2023
Most people have heard of peeing in the wind. It's a sign of futility, messy and embarrassing after the fact. Spitting at least you can dodge.

Maybe it's not the very mild profanity, but now the un-PC assigned male at birth centric patriarchy leaning of the saying.

Sifhraven
+1
Level 67
Dec 7, 2018
Im allways surprised how many I (or anyone else for that matter) get right, while english isnt my native language.

Sometimes saying are similar in different countries. But in this list we (Netherlands) only have the "gift horse" one.

shinboy
+2
Level 73
Apr 22, 2019
No "Don't cry over spilled milk." It brings me such sadness that Quizmaster would forget that.
Jango
+2
Level 64
Sep 3, 2021
Don't spit in the wind is more usually 'it's like spitting in the wind', so doesn't really belong here.

The French versions are much more colourful: c'est comme pisser dans le vent ; c'est comme pisser dans un violon

BlackLab
+2
Level 65
Nov 17, 2021
Don't cry over _____ _____
Tuesday
+5
Level 74
Jan 1, 2023
me Argentina?
IsleAuHaulte
+1
Level 89
Jan 3, 2023
Falkland Islands?
notdatboy
+1
Level 20
Apr 15, 2024
You mean Las Marinas?!? lololllo
McKenzieFam
+1
Level 63
Apr 5, 2022
Don't take any wooden nickels - because otherwise when you try to use them you'll either be arrested for attempted counterfeit (pretty sloppy counterfeit but counterfeit nonetheless) or, if you're at a self-serve machine, you'll have your wooden coins rejected and spat back at you.
RobNobody
+2
Level 77
Jan 1, 2023
That... is indeed the exact meaning of the phrase, yes.
itsblaze
+2
Level 38
Jan 1, 2023
For "Don't rock the boat" I half-jokingly put "don't rock the casbah" but got it pretty quickly-
Scaro88
+3
Level 78
Jan 1, 2023
I think 'small things' for don't sweat the should be allowed
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