Common sayings which don't make sense

[nevernotstruggling]

Dd1 (11) has just said 'mummy you know how you don't like it when people say ATM machine??? Because the M is for machine?? Well what about baby chick? Chick is the baby version of chicken so you are just saying oh look a baby baby!'

She's right. Any more like this?

Like shit off a shovel.

Our DDogs turds tend to stick when you try to flick them off.

12pm/12am. No, it's either 12 noon or 12 midnight.

Hubby has just informed me that today us the longest day, & then provided the perfect example for this thread by pointing out that it's actually not, as it has 24 hours, same as any other day (although I suppose if you don't subscribe to 24 hours a day & differentiate between day & night it makes more sense)

I’ve never understood “it’s cheap at half the price.”

billmasen then you would say ‘speaking on behalf of Someone else’ which is something one would do less often than speaking for oneself which should be the default and needs no explanation. In my opinion anyway. Personally speaking.

Sleep like a baby

I don’t know about other people’s baby’s but my baby does not ‘sleep like a baby’

'I'll tell you for why!'

It makes me so bloody angry! It's 'I'll tell you why' Julie,you daft old twat!

Paddy field

I think “paddy” means rice field. No extra “field” required. I could be wrong, I learnt this from a Peanuts cartoon!

@howmuchsun

Sleep like a baby

I don’t know about other people’s baby’s but my baby does not ‘sleep like a baby’

I second this

Not as green as you're cabbage looking. This is one of my nan's saying. Absolutely no idea what it means and i don't think she knows either!!!

@Isolemnlyscare

Not as green as you're cabbage looking. This is one of my nan's saying. Absolutely no idea what it means and i don't think she knows either!!!

I could be wrong but I think "green" means innocent/naive/stupid. So they're saying "you're not as stupid as you look" - "you're not green but you do look like a cabbage"

New and improved

If its new it can't have been improved as it didn't exist before now

If its improved then it had to exist in a previous form and is therefore not new.
Makes me so unnecessarily ragey 😂😂

New and Improved - drives me mad because it's either new or an improvement

wishing happy birthday technically only makes sense on the day one is born.

this has annoyed me since I can remember (it's the same expression in Hungarian)

The French, the Spanish (if I'm correct) and some others have got it right by wishing a happy anniversary instead.

When the train announcer says, take all your personal belongings with you. What, and leave behind your non-personal belongings??

"take care" "enjoy your meal" "have a nice holiday"

all make me a bit irrationally angry when in the wrong mood.
because of course that's the plan!
what else was I gonna do? headbutt the windscreen then set myself on fire? poor bleach on my food? go on a holiday I will loathe?
urgh.

( like a hypocrite of course I say them all to others, can't help it! 🙈)

Hubby has just informed me that today us the longest day, & then provided the perfect example for this thread by pointing out that it's actually not, as it has 24 hours, same as any other day (although I suppose if you don't subscribe to 24 hours a day & differentiate between day & night it makes more sense)

The longest day (albeit artificially adjusted) is actually at the end of October!

'Location, location, location' - it's the same word repeated three times!!!!
Erm, no it isn't - it's only repeated twice.

A guy DH works with always says to him, "can I ask you a question?" And it really winds DH up

It should wind him up twice over, because the bloke obviously can ask a question. The question is, may he.

Nobody says ATM machine though so that doesn’t make sense. It’s just the ATM.

"that's an hour of my life I'll never get back"
🙄
newsflash : none of the hours of your life will you ever get back, no matter how you spent it

Flat screen tv.

@AndddddHerewegoagain @gurglebelly

New and improved when referring to food usually means it doesnt taste as good as before, or theyve made the packet smaller, but increased the price!🤣

"take care" "enjoy your meal" "have a nice holiday"

That reminds me of a Milton Jones joke:

I was in the US and am assistant in a shop said to me "Have a nice day!!!" It all seems very OTT to us, but I decided I should start acting like a local and get into the spirit of things. I didn't actually have a nice day - so I sued him

‘Free gift’.
If it’s a gift then the recipient won’t have paid for it anyway.