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?

My husband misuses phrases all the time and it cracks me up.
‘have us a guess’ - hazard a guess
’nip it in the butt’
theres loads more but those two always spring to mind 🤣

I dispute that it is us more common usage although I don't hear either version (correct think or incorrect thing) much these days

I see on Facebook when people wish others happy birthday ‘love you all the world’ really winds me up.
also when people say brought instead of bought 🤢

'Enshittification' s a wonderful word; thank you.

Maybe they just can’t spell ‘infuriates’ (me).’

I think the original saying was ‘it would be cheap at TWICE the price,” i.e. it’s a real bargain at the current price and is worth considerably more.
It’s the only way it makes sense but somehow this meaning has been lost.

'The dog's bollocks' is a military term (so I'm told) and means 'outstanding'!

Nip it in the butt is strangely evocative. lt deserves to be widely used.

TBH I often think that some of the typically MN sayings (e.g. Give your head a wobble) are often used by people whose vocabulary/command of English, is perhaps somewhat lacking.

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"Bob's your uncle" is an old fashioned saying referring to a time (1920s?)when someone who had a relative in the government was using this person for their own advantage.
It now means something more like ‘that’s a done deal’ or ‘all done and dusted’.

🤣🤣🤣

And on a tv advert for Micellar Water ‘my skin’s feeling tea’ what on earth does that mean??

We always used to say, "Bob's your uncle and Fanny's your aunt"
I'vd no idea if that was just in our family.

My sister misheard the phrase, "ad infinitum" and said, "Adam fadaddum". We thought it was hilarious so always say that. I'm always worried that somebody might overhear us and think we don't know the correct expression.

On/off the wagon. Can never remember which way round it is so utterly meaningless to me.

Saw it today and it annoyed me all over again "it likely will" instead of "it is likely to",

It's spill the beans not spill the tea, makes me tut every time someone say it !

But that’s not an English dictionary? It’s from an American dictionary which is a completely different language: American English as opposed to just the original and best - English. 🤷🏻‍♀️

The original and historically correct phrase is "another think coming." According to the Oxford English Dictionary (OED), "another thing coming" is a later variant that arose from a mishearing or misapprehension of the original expression. about:blank 1]

‘We’ are pregnant

Thats Grand Kevin- how’s your swollen ankles and leaky nips working out for you fella?

Chill as in, 'We had a lovely chill weekend"

No you had a lovely chilled weekend.