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?

Maybe I'm too simple but I always thought pan-frying was to distinguish between the different styles and techniques of frying (pan fry, deep dry, stir fry, air fry etc.)

But multiple old pennies were “pence” - thruppeny bits had Three Pence on them etc. I was never taught that non-existent distinction between old and new. Sixpence became two and and a half pee.

Which — the correct phrase, or the Judas Priest sub variant?

Which used to be accurately described as 'shallow fried'.

You can deep fry in a pan.

Prostrate instead of prostate

Reminds me of a Top Tip I saw in Viz. "If you are looking for something, when you find it carry on looking for a time afterwards so that it won't be in the last place you looked"

Yes indeed. I used to pay for my bus to primary school with a thrupenny bit. And a sixpence went into the Christmas pudding.

I think I was underplaying the “new” part. So it was however many “new pence”.

“Me thinks”

FUCK OFF.

It really isn't

'Lived experience' - someone can be trained to diagnose and treat a condition, while not having it themselves. Someone else may have the condition, which is their lived experience. i hope that's cleared it up or you; it used to drive me round the sodding twist before it was explained to me.

How can it cost more it is Cheap shite
""Vegan leather is an animal-free material designed to look and feel like real leather, commonly made from polyurethane (PU), polyvinyl chloride (PVC), or plant-based fibers. Prices typically range from $13 to $114 per yard or item, and the material generally lasts between 2 to 5 years.

I have a watch by Mondaine whose strap is 'grape leather' - actually made from grapes! A pouch for my hair brush is made from apple leather but no such luck - it's from an animal.

That’s the valid use. What the PP described wasn’t like that.

I thought it was killed rather nastily.

Merriam Webster is wrong!

@TheThirteenthFairy

There were 2 goats.

The scapegoat was allowed to escape. The other one was sacrificed.

You can read about it in Leviticus 16

I understand that - people use it well beyond this scope though. The discussion where it irritated me was about smoking. My American aquaintance claimed at a get together in the pub garden that far more people smoke in the UK than France (where she had lived previously) and that pretty much nobody in the USA smokes any more. She was being pretty rude and putting it down to ignorance and antisocial behaviour.
In fact far more people and a far higher percentage of the population smoke in France than the UK, and rates in the USA are similar to the UK.
Pointing that out led to her using her "lived experience" as a shutdown.

Irritating, and like pigeon chess - essentially "lived experience" is used to assert that anecdotes and opinions trump data, no debate.

Yes, but I've looked at barefoot shoes where the website price for leather is lower than "vegan leather" for the same style. It's just marketing, not material cost. Things are worth what people are prepared to pay. I guess barefoot shoe wearers are more likely to be vegan, perhaps (I have no evidence of this lived experience 🤣).

Nope, you are wrong. The whole phrase is “if you think that, you’ve got another think coming.” A play on the first use of think.

When most people (including me) say 'think coming' it sounds like 'thing coming' because you kind of swallow the 'k'.

It's from an episode of Happy Days, an 80s American TV series. A character, the Fonz, jumped over a shark while waterskiiing - it means something unbelievable whereby all credibility is lost.

I realise I am about the tenth person to explain this because I haven't RTFT.

That's the point. It"s a non-answer.

It's not.

Exactly. It's clear that if you identify as something, you are not that thing.

It refers to sex education pre 1960s or 70s when actual human sex was never mentioned just vague allusions to animal behaviour.