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.

So by your logic nothing is heavier than anything else! Don't you see?.
Lead weighs the same as feathers as 1kg of lead weighs the same as 1kg of feathers.
You used this erroneous argument to argue (the probablt correct face, I don't know) that muscle doesn't weigh more than fat

The fact may be correct but the logic is flawed

Weight and mass are not the same.
Feathers and bricks don't have a weight until you quantify a volume and density of each. So muscle weighs more than fat is incorrect

I realise weight and mass aren't the same but don't agree with your second sentence. Under the same gravitational force, lead weighs more than feathers.

"All roads lead to Rome"

What a load of crap! I fancied a long weekend away in Italy recently. Can you imagine my disappointment when I hopped on the A39 and ended up in Minehead!

'We're all on the spectrum.' No, we aren't. Many of us have traits which autistic people have, but you need them all to be autistic.

'To die for.' Do you honestly mean you would die for a piece of cake?
I'm a bit OCD. As far as I am aware OCD is a crippling condition which rules people's lives, not to be used lightly by people who just like things neat and tidy.

The use of 'chemicals' to denote 'artificially created substances which may or may not be harmful to humans/the planet'.
I know it's shorthand, but it winds me up.
Saw a fb post asking for cleaning sprays that were 'free of chemicals' and had to sit on my hands not to reply 'so, a perfect vacuum then?'

Noooooo! Ice cold water is.... ICE! FFS!

No it isn't. Water at 0 degrees can be solid, liquid or vapour.

Water can be colder than ice. You can super cool water at home. Also clouds can contain super cooled water. That's how you can get freezing rain (rain that turns to ice when it hits the floor) and why jet planes sometimes leave a trail of ice behind them

'Muscle weighs more than fat' assumes that both are the same volume, which I think is fair, in general conversation.

(Obviously I wouldn't allow that kind of loose talk in my classroom, and I'm going to ignore the fact that the general public use 'weight' when they mean 'mass' anyway)

The mass/weight of two substances are not comparable unless you specify volume.

What people are actually comparing is density.

Generally if someone is comparing the weight (mass!) of two substances they would assume the same volume, even if they don't know they are actually talking about density. Lead weighs more than feathers, oil is lighter than water, etc.

So if you lost a volume of fat and gained the same volume of muscle you would weigh more, they are correct.

I can see why it would be annoying as a HCP though, not sure how you can 'win' other than measuring their volume 🧐 get the tape measure out maybe?

Assuming muscle does weigh more than fat - does it?

I still don’t understand “they don’t know they’re born!”

I don’t like ‘at the end of the day’.

I already commented/agreed with a PP on the use of "my" as in "I do like my rock music" - as if it's something strange and unusual.

I take that and raise you the MN-habit of asking if "anyone has THIS virus going round".

As if there is just one single virus/bug/sickness that is let out of quarantine every so often and covers the whole world, not the actual thousands or millions of them there really is, mutating all the time.

@SlowlyLosingWeight

The correct phrase is "he/she wants to eat their cake and have it too"

Which means they want to eat it but then still have it left to eat again later. Which they can't do; so they can't have both. So it's like someone who wants to have a marriage as well as a mistress etc.

It was switched around a very long time ago to "have you cake and eat it" and that then became the common phrase, but it's just wrong.

People saying that something was achieved 'in one foul swoop'. Grr, it's 'FELL' swoop.

"My bad"
Eeuugghhh!! Just Eeuugghhh!!!

My darling grandma used to say " just because the person in the next bed has cancer, it doesn't make your ingrown toenail hurt any the less". Usually when one of her grandchildren were crying due to some hurt or other whilst their mum was saying " stop crying its only a little bump" or suchlike

The pluralisation of nouns...

Your Watfords, your Chelseas, your Liverpools...

there's only ONE of each.

Also, 'living my best life' makes me irrationally annoyed.

@TornFromTheInside or the other way round - singulars in fashion such as "a trouser" or "a red shoe"

1. Why are previews always prefaced with "sneak"?
2. Why do people always "grab" a sandwich?
3. "All the trimmings" applied to roast dinners.

When you have a newborn "sleep when the baby sleeps".. ok shall I sleep while walking her in the pram or while driving her in the car? Because that was the only way she'd sleep for the first 6 wks

Good shout CloudPop!!! That's definitely as irritating!

Or 'he trousered it' (put into a pocket), 'it's a big ask' grrrrrrr

Money might not buy you happiness, but it does mean you're comfortable in your misery.
"Blood is thicker than water".
We have this the wrong way round. The full saying is "The blood of the battlefield is thicker than the water of the womb." meaning that the relationship with friends and comrades is forged by deeds and is thus stronger than the accidental relationship of family.

"I saw it with my own eyes! / heard it with my own ears!" Well, obviously. Who else's would you be seeing or hearing with?

"First world problems" I get the concept but it's a fucking tedious way of telling people to shut up about their run of the mill observations and dilemmas.