Red lorry, yellow lorry.

Meaning: The 'l/r' alternation drill — deceptively short, yet almost impossible to say fast without merging the colours.

Language: English

Literally: Red lorry, yellow lorry.

Category: Warm-up

Origin: A British English classic; non-native speakers use it to drill the l/r distinction.

More tongue twisters — Warm-up

Sex laxar i en laxask. — A short 'x/lax/ks' crunch — Swedish's 'x' sounds like 'ks', which doubles the trap.
Capra neagră sare piatra, piatra-i neagră, capra-i albă. — A rapid 'c/pr/n' alternation that gains speed — and the colour-swap at the end trips the…
Ular melingkar-lingkar di atas pagar pak Umar. — A rolling 'l / r / ling' drill that loops like the snake it describes.
Unique New York. — Three words that jam the 'y/n/k' sequence together — repeat it and it collapses into 'you…
O peito do pé de Pedro é preto. — Five 'p' words in a row, with the vowels shifting underneath each one.
Ząb, zupa zębowa; dąb, zupa dębowa. — Drills the nasal vowels ą and ę, which only differ from plain a and e by the nasal hum.

How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood? — A 'w/ch/ck' drill that accelerates comically — and nobody really knows the answer.
The sixth sick sheikh's sixth sheep's sick. — Believed by Guinness to be among the hardest in English — 'six/sick/sheikh/sheep' blur in…
Betty Botter bought some butter, but she said the butter's bitter. — A 'b / t / tt' plosive drill that bounces between Betty, butter, and bitter.
She sells seashells by the seashore. — The definitive 's' versus 'sh' alternation — the tongue has to switch place of articulati…
Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers. — A relentless 'p' plosive drill; a peck is an old dry measure of about nine litres.
Pad kid poured curd pulled cod. — Alternating repetition — the consonants swap at the start of every other word, which is w…

One man's trash is another man's treasure — What one person discards, another may value.
Money doesn't grow on trees — Money is hard to earn and should be spent wisely.
When in Rome, do as the Romans do — Adapt to local customs when visiting a new place.