Popular phrases / sayings you find inaccurate or just don't like

[SlowlyLosingWeight]

For me there are two main ones:

“There’s always somebody worse off than yourself”. Yes that may well be true Linda, but excuse me for not skipping joyfully from here to San Francisco because so and so’s Auntie’s, Sister’s, Godmother’s Cousin has got problems more depressing than mine. Don’t get me wrong I’m sorry for them but it doesn’t make me feel any better about my own shit. It isn’t a fucking competition.

“Money doesn’t make you happy”. There are absolutely things more important than money. Loved ones and health of course. But let’s be honest... I’d rather cry in a Lamborghini.

"muscle weighs more than fat". No, 1kg is 1kg. It's very inaccurate and can leave people convinced if they are gaining weight that they are gaining muscle not fat. I'm a HCP supporting people weight loss.

Not so much things that annoy me, just things we have all got use to saying without thinking about it ,
When people say or refer to there PIN Number or as happens a lot where I work PAT Test
It's a Personal Identification Number so you do not need to say the word number at the end
As with Portable Appliance Test, you don't need to say Test at the end.
I also often wonder why people 'Hoover' ( instead of vacuum) Hoover is just a brand name , nobody says they are going to Philps/ Beko/ whirlpool when they put the dishwasher or washing machine on .

I just hate the term "bling". No idea why, it just makes me grit my teeth!

“Everything happens for a reason” - maybe it does (maybe it doesn’t), but I can assure you that it doesn’t make me feel any better when I’m going through minor inconvenience/illness/deep trauma.

“You are exactly where you are meant to be” - nope!

“God never gives you more than you can handle” - Great, thanks for that encouraging, totally unbiblical, insight.

“I could care less” - I lived in the US for years and I still don’t understand this one.

“Somewhen else” - I actually don’t know if this is popular or not - it’s only my in laws that I know who say it, but it may well be said as a normal turn of phrase in the region they live. (DH thought it was normal when I met him) It irrationally irritates me - somewhen is not a word!

I hate, "Cheer up, it might never happen". How do you know it hasn't already happened?

‘Better to regret something you’ve done than something you haven’t done’ - not if you’ve done something terrible.

Face your fears - not if your fear is rational e.g. you’re in Australia and have a fear of funnel web spiders

""muscle weighs more than fat". No, 1kg is 1kg. It's very inaccurate and can leave people convinced if they are gaining weight that they are gaining muscle not fat. I'm a HCP supporting people weight loss."

It means the same volume of muscle weight more than the same volume of fat. I have no idea if that's true but it isn't logically inconsistent as you're implying.
. Otherwise I weigh the same as a new born baby. 1kg of me weighs the same a 1kg of baby.

"I'm a little bit OCD/ADHD/autistic."
Ha, yeah.

Not a saying, but commonly misused, "Happy belated birthday". Aaaagh! It's 'belated happy birthday'!

'It is what it is'... (?!?*#?)

And 'Brexit means Brexit'....
Yes, but WHAT does Brexit truly mean? The demise of the NHS? The end of the peace process in Northern Ireland? Buying your potatoes in pounds not kilos???

'The proof is in the pudding'

no, the Proof of the pudding is in the eating

Irrationally pedantic I know, but still..

I hate, "Cheer up, it might never happen". How do you know it hasn't already happened?

Also - maybe you can't cheer up because that's exactly it - what if it never happens? So fuck right off!

Another one:

"Have your cake and eat it" I'm sorry but what is the point of having a cake if you can't fucking eat it?! Unless you're drawing still food in an art class of course but even then it'd be a waste not to eat it afterwards!

"Behind your back " impossible, if it was behind your back it would be in front of you, had a whole thread about this, still irks me x

Sleeping like a baby - so that will be 15 minutes at a time, interspersed with inconsolable crying, finally waking up for good around 4am then...

Sleeping like a teenager would make far more sense!

I saw a post on Facebook the other day that made me laugh - it said "whoever thinks money doesn't bring happiness, transfer it over to my account"

‘It’s better to have loved and lost, than never loved at all’

I’d rather feel nothing than feel the pain of losing, personally.

The phrase is you CAN'T have your cake and eat it. That's the entire point.

“Somewhen else”

Somewhen is a popular saying where I live, but I think it’s just here. I quite like it but it annoys DH

I hate “Makes my teeth itch”. Really? I’ve never had itchy teeth

PP I always think I could care less means you do care at least a bit , ie if you drop a whole cake on the floor you could say , I could care less if it had just been one slice , but most of us would say I -would- care less if it had been one slice .
If you said i couldn't care less then you really do not care about the cake one bit.

( starts looking around for dropped cake )

"Grow a pair" (of balls to toughen up.)

You meant those very sensitive things hanging down behind a mans penis where he would actually cry if you kicked them? 🤔

I think it should be "grow a fanjo!"

You know that tough area which gives birth to babies and endures countless periods and smears and in my case coils going up it! 😬

God never closes a door without opening a window.

I want a door, not a fecking window, and that doesn't even deal with the issue of whether God exists or had any input to me not getting the job I applied for!

This comes up an awful lot on here, but when people wrongly say "If you think that, you've got another THING coming" instead of "another THINK coming", it still makes me very cross.

• waits for thread to explode.

"Have your cake and eat it" I'm sorry but what is the point of having a cake if you can't fucking eat it?! Unless you're drawing still food in an art class of course but even then it'd be a waste not to eat it afterwards!

I came on here to say this! What the hell does it mean? If you have cake surely the point is to eat it.

it will be in the last place you look for it

Really ! Well I am not going to keep on looking once I have found it so yes , it is in the last place I looked