Couple Quiz: 14 Fun Questions About Your Relationship
A2 English listening practice · English · Curated for beginners
What does “social butterfly” mean?
A social butterfly is someone who flits between groups at a party, chatting with everyone rather than sticking with one circle. The English idiom borrows the restless way a butterfly moves between flowers and turns it into a portrait of an outgoing, sociable person. The phrase carries a warm or teasing tone, depending on whether you envy the person or wish they would slow down. American English picked it up in the early 1900s and it has stayed in everyday use across sitcoms, magazine quizzes, and dating shows.
In this clip, an English-speaking couple plays a fourteen-question quiz: “Who’s the social butterfly?”
Vocabulary frequency
How common is the vocabulary in this A2 English listening practice listening practice?
General English frequency
Spoken English frequency
Source: wordfreq 3.1.1 (general) · SUBTLEX-US 2012 (spoken). Buckets approximate; exact ranks not stored.
- ▸In American sitcoms about friend groups (Friends, How I Met Your Mother, New Girl)
- ▸In American and British dating shows (The Bachelor, Love Island, Married at First Sight)
- ▸In couples-quiz TikTok and YouTube formats
- ▸In English-language self-help books on personality and introversion (Quiet, The Charisma Myth)
- ▸In American workplace small-talk about colleagues and clients