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?

Think is correct. Iteans you need to think again

My comment reads poorly

'Youve got another think coming' is correct, 'thing' isnt

“How long is a piece of string”
HOWEVER LONG YOU WANT IT TO BE!😂

When a suggestion is 'for the birds'. Used mostly by politicians in interviews. I can't stand it. It's an abridged americanism which i believe in full is 'shit for the birds'. It's a vulgar phrase and it makes me wonder if they actually know what they're saying or just trotting out what they've heard others say.

There is a difference between real leather and genuine leather....

Real leather means it is cut from a hide, usually the top high quality layer.

Genuine leather is the bottom layers of the hide, covered in a plastic coating, or embossed.

How can you not understand ‘broad daylight’? It just means full daylight, not nighttime, and not very early dawn or dusk.

It's a joke, possibly a joke that the people you're hearing say it don't get! The proper saying is 'cheap at twice the price'

On the weekend. No, it’s at the weekend. I do understand it, it just makes me cross.

Same with on accident instead of by accident.

I've always taken 'murdered in broad daylight' to be a murder which takes place outside and passers-by could have seen it happen, therefore it was much riskier for the murderer to do it than if they'd done it when it was dark when nobody could see.

I’d be inclined to think that anyone who says ‘escape goat’ never reads anything halfway intelligent*, and never has, or they’d surely have come across ‘scapegoat’ at some point.

*by which I don’t mean ‘literary’ BTW, if anyone’s wondering, just anything written by anyone with a reasonably good command of English.

That's the point -there isn't a definite or known answer.

Yes! And the worst one ‘on Christmas’ 🤯

'I turned around and said ....' Ok so before you spoke you did a 360 degree twirl.

Can I ask you a question? Erm, you just did!!!

Can I pick your brains? Please god, do not!!!

“Jump The Shark” comes from the TV programme “Happy Days” when the Fonz on water skis jumps over a shark.
It’s shorthand for the point at which something stretches credulity beyond even the most basic levels…

Yeah, used to be "spill the beans" !!

Twice as long as it is from one end to the middle?

‘Faux leather’ irritates me. Presumably they hope that most people won’t realise that faux just means fake - they think it makes it sound fancier - certainly a lot fancier than ‘plastic’.

Sorry OP, but “gives me the rage” is probably the most annoying phrase of all time for me.

"No news is good news"

A) All news is bad

B) That we haven't heard anything yet, means the chances of something turning out good are vastly improved.

I genuinely have no idea how to interpret this.

'Welcome in' - said in restaurants in parts of USA

Just welcome or come in

Oh god yes -

reaching out
holding space
lived experience (someone once said to me "I'm not talking about facts, I'm talking about lived experience" thinking this made her factually incorrect misunderstanding of a very objectively measurable situation more valid than the truth.)

Also people who state their ridiculous opinion and then say "end of". The end of what? Any attempt to use correct grammar, presumably.

Dodged a bullet is one I don’t get and see often on mumsnet usually it will be someone gets pregnant by a man, he cheats on her then dumps her and it will be “well you dodged a bullet” well no she really didn’t, though i do get that it’s said to make the person feel better

Vegan leather is the new faux leather though... Sometimes calling it vegan means it even costs more than leather!

editing to add that I meant to reply to (and in agreement with) @GETTINGLIKEMYMOTHER

When you’ve lost something and someone says “it’ll be in the last place you look!”

well, obviously…….

gives me the rage!