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?

The phrase "I have anxiety" makes my teeth itch. Makes it sound so passive. "I'm anxious" places it in the here and now, if you will excuse the cliche.

Back in the mists of time when prisoners were transported in horse drawn vehicles the guards would stop off at inns along the way for refreshments, but the prisoner did not get ale because he or she was "on the wagon".

"Have" = keep, in this phrase. So you want to keep your cake uneaten, maybe for later, but also eat it.

I agree it would be much clearer phrased differently.

I think 'I have anxiety' usually means 'I have an anxiety disorder'. It's somewhat in the same category as 'I have a temperature/ blood prressure' in that if we didn't have anxiety about anything at all, we wouldn't survive long; but some people have anxiety disorders where it is excessive.

I think that's what it used to mean, but it's used indiscriminating now by people who don't have a disorder but think it sounds more respectable than "I'm worried/ anxious".

People often say "I have anxiety about some specific thing, and in that case it's almost always a rephrasing of "I'm anxious about". You're giving me anxiety is another one (eg. "don't tell me about missing your flight, you're giving me anxiety about my holiday flights now!")

I couldn't care less is correct. It's like 'I couldn't care ANY less.' I.e you do NOT care at all.

If you 'could care less' than you already do then you already DO care.

It is definitely not. It is think.

I've always said, "Another think coming" but my son 32 and OH 64 argued that it's "thing". I thought it might have been a generational thing but not in their case.

Even bloody autocorrect changed think to thing 🙄