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?

Chip on his shoulder

WHAT DOES THAT MEAN i dont get it 🤔

Please explain why.

No dodging a bullet would have been never meeting him or not being pregnant to him so we will have to agree to disagree as it’s saying you don’t get and that’s one that I never get, makes no sense at all. 18 years parenting with a cheating loser sounds fun not

Screen shot attached, might take a while to load. I'll concede that people erroneously say you've got another think coming, but that is wrong.

My boss used to say "I was thinking, in my head" when she wanted to tell us to do something in a different way

I'd mentally always add as oppose to your arse because most of her ideas were absolute crap

that's the point?

I've heard of 'spill the beans'

No. It isn't.

First conveys how it wasn't done discreetly in the dark.

The second makes it clear the blood wasn't the killers.

I agree. The worst examples are usually medical, I think.

People will often say/write that they “have blood pressure” or “have mental health” when what they mean is high blood pressure or poor mental health.

Oh come on 🙄 you know what the phrase means and how it’s being applied, you’re disputing the ‘bullet’ part.

For sure she’s sadly received quite a few bullets. But she is no longer with a POS so that particular bullet is dodged. The phrase makes sense, even if you don’t agree with its application. That’s what the thread is about.

I've never heard "spill the tea" only "spill the beans"

'Moment in time' there is nowhere else a moment can be, if you mean 'now' or 'at the moment' say so. Moment in time is meaningless.

It makes no sense. The original phrase appears to have been "think" which makes more sense to me. But like a lot of things language changes over times and often places too.

"another think coming" vs. "another thing coming" : Pardon the Expression | Vocabulary.com

Another 'thing' is from people mishearing.

You need to click into that link where you’ll read that the phrase is ‘another think coming’ but that people misheard it & now ‘another thing coming’ is used colloquially.

It makes zero sense to have ‘thing’.

Sorry, cross-posted with PPs!

OMG - another think coming! It’s like the damp squib all over again!

I have a friend who recounts conversations and says, ‘so I turned round to him and said…’ and then she says, ‘and he turned round and said…’.

And by the end of the conversation I’ve no idea who’s facing which way. 😂

Also, ‘slept like a baby’. What, awake every 3 hours needing food?

Well that went wrong - I should have said squid! 😉

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‘Holding space’. What?!

’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?

This concept is spoofed in the film Spinal Tap when someone refers to a rock star doing because he choked on vomit ... but it was someone else's vomit. (Sorry it's funnier than it sounds written down.)

Also, ‘slept like a baby’. What, awake every 3 hours needing food?

I've never understood that one either.

https://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/another-think-coming.html

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/have-another-think-coming

https://www.benjaminrose.com/post/another-thing-coming-vs-another-think-coming/

https://www.michiganpublic.org/arts-culture/2019-02-03/if-you-think-you-know-this-idiom-you-may-have-another-think-coming

https://grammarphobia.com/blog/2017/04/thing-think.html

There's some debate, but most sources suggest that the phrase should be "if you think x you've got another think coming". Apparently in modern US American usage, the "thing" version is more prevalent.