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?

But it is possible to be found dead in a pool of someone else’s blood. So you should specify to avoid people asking ‘who’s blood’ in horror.

Also yes broad daylight is worse than at night. Bad things should only happen at night. Daytime safe, nighttime dangerous unless you’re under a duvet.

No, the proper saying is "cheap at half the price."

It's a sort of verbal sleight of hand. The seller says, "it's cheap at half the price," the buyer hears the word "cheap" and thinks they're getting a bargain. They're not, but the seller hasn't lied, because it's true it would be cheap at half the price, only they're not selling it half price.

🤣 that is funny and does show how easily predictive text can adapt our use of language.

A bit like the "think" and "thing" debate. I go with think as it makes more sense to me but I do hear often another "thing coming".

Its the whole brought instead of bought that makes me cringe 😬

OPPOSED

Ok, so this was originally 'spill the T'. When T was short for truth. So it was 'spill the truth'.
It evolved due to the teacup emoji which allowed people to write 'Spill the 🍵'.

Tea meaning gossip comes from AAVE (African American vernacular English) specifically black drag culture AAVE. However it has spread through social media and Drag Race.

Thank you for this!! I've always wondered where this saying came from and never got round to googling it.

In context of threads I had seen it referenced, it made sense that it meant it implied the "story had gone a bit far-fetched" so I never bothered (found the time) to find the origin but this is really interesting!!

Ride or die is like Bonnie and Clyde. They'll either be by your side in the getaway car (ride) or die next to you. It's supposed to mean to show great loyalty to someone no matter what the outcome is.

That is not true. Yes Tea meant truth but it didn’t begin from an emoji. its documented from the 1970s onwards from drag.

“Hope your well” (with or without typo). It’s not even a question!

“Oh my days”
“Back in the day”
both annoy me

people (especially celebrities) are always “welcoming a baby” grrrrr

people who say “I hate to say this….” Usually they are delighting in saying this.

The way people “identify as” rather than “are”.

It’s a joke.

I know what it means and have heard it since childhood. I take it to mean that someone is bothered or het up about something that they are always going to be be so about. Or that they have a particular grievance against something which might not make sense logically.

But a bit like jumped the shark I've not looked at the origin. Off to google now.

I meant the use of it nowadays being more commonly written down, allowing the popular spread of the version of 'tea' rather than 'T'.

Babies sleep a lot.

But it’s like taking candy from a baby 😉

I really don't want to know

Clearly a phrase coined by someone who has never wrestled a boiled sweet off a baby (trying to verbally reason with the baby like its going to care the sweet might kill it)

No, it's definitely think.

It really isn’t.

Its from WW1, if you hadn't had a telegram then it was a good chance your loved one hadn't been killed.

Im guilty of oh my days its usually said instead of oh for FUCKS SAKE somewhere I decided that it was an acceptable substitute for swearing

'Infamous' now used to mean 'famous'
And 'very unique' now often used too.
Annoying

Choked on vomit.

They never found out whose vomit it was.