Phrases which I don’t understand (and which give me the rage)

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‘She was murdered in broad daylight’.
What is ‘broad daylight’? Is it worse than being killed in the middle of the night?

’He was found lying in a pool of his own blood’. Well, he’s not likely to have been found in a pool of someone else’s blood, is he?

Perhaps my perimenopausal diminishing hormones are taking over but phrases like this give me the rage. Any other examples?

Aha

I dont like when people misuse phrases

'Youve got another think coming' not thing

'I couldnt care less' the Americans are wrong

'It's the least I could do'
It's like I wanted to do less.....

Yeah, what is 'broad' daylight anyway?😂

“Cheap at half the price.”

well yeah it would be.

My quibble is with conversation blocker phrases that get flung out randomly, esp by Gen Z. Everything is 'gas lighting' or 'guilt tripping'. How can we take these concepts seriously when they are too freely applied by grumpy teens in disagreements with their parents.

Real leather. If it isn't real, it isn't leather.

New baby, I've never met an old one.

Usually said by nurses "you mum?". So many times I've wanted to say, "of course not, you've already heard me speaking. I'm Imogen's mum btw".

Broad daylight means not dusk or dawn.

but yeah it is one of those phases.

and speaking as a first aider it’s actually quite frequent to find that after an accident there is blood everywhere and on everyone. And if there’s been a fight there’s lots of blood from multiple people on multiple people

“Jump the shark”

eh?

‘In and of itself’
instant rage

On traitors Canada, one of the players said she was an escape goat and another said they should nip it in the butt.😂

I think people use these sort of phrases less than they used to. When I was a child most things were dressed up with a phrase or 2. I don't dislike any except the modern ones; 'its doable...Does that make sense?

Broad daylight isn’t worse but it makes it surprising that no one saw anything - a cliched way to say that

yes he could be in a pool of someone else’s blood if there had been some kind of fight or another body had been removed. And it sounds off saying “found lying in a pool of blood “ - could have been pigs blood from the abbatoir

Jump the shark comes from a later episode of Happy Days where the Fonz literally jumps over a shark on water skis. It was the point the series went downhill. The poor script writers inadvertently devised the phrase which is used to indiate the show has gone downhill in all tv programmes since. Which is quite impressive.

Oh I get it! Thank you!

Spill the tea….since when did tea become slang for gossip?!

I am en route home after a gruelling day at the office and this has cheered me right up!!

‘Sick to my stomach,’

a) well you wouldn’t be sick to your lungs or your kidneys, would you?
b) and shouldn’t it be ‘sick FROM your stomach’?

Also ‘ I have a temperature/blood pressure’. Yes love, everyone does. If you mean a high temperature or BP please say so.

"Butter wouldn't melt"

It doesn't make sense!

It is what it is.
and don’t get me started on adults saying they have a “ poorly tummy” like they were five years old.

There’s someone I work with who describes changing their opinion/mind and doing the opposite as “doing a 360” and it really irritates me.

“Can I get…” said when ordering in a restaurant. No you can’t fucking “get” it. The serving staff will do that.

Too 🤣 funny! It's like little kids who hear adults say words that sound like something they know about but turns out it only sounds similar and means something completely different.

Also any phrase that had its origins in management wank speak. “Reaching out” is particularly awful.

The meaning is of someone who looks so cool and calm that butter wouldn’t melt in their mouth, but is in fact devious, conniving etc

‘She’ll / he’ll / it’ll be as right as rain” - what?
Rain is wet.
What is the meaning of “right” in relation to the rain?
it’s all hogwash…
I’ve never understood this phrase at all.