Tip: See my list of the Most Common Mistakes in English. It will teach you how to avoid mis­takes with com­mas, pre­pos­i­tions, ir­reg­u­lar verbs, and much more.

Did you know that the animal proverbially killed in the expression “kill two birds with one stone” differs from country to country? The map below shows the type of animal killed (birds are red, flies are brown, and rabbits/hares are green) together with a literal translation of the expression into English (please note that minority languages are not included in this particular map due to space reasons):

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In some cases, I encountered two or more variants of the expression. Whenever this happened, I chose the one that seemed to be the most common. Here’s a list of the expressions shown in the map in the source languages (plus some minority languages):