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?

I can sort of see how faze morphed into fizz. However, hearing it makes me wince.

This. See also: I’ve got blood pressure.

Yes, yes you have. Otherwise you’d be dead. Is it high, perhaps ?

’Faze on him’ would still be horribly wrong in that case, though, like you say.

Sorry for your loss is a very insensitive comment ! Having someone close to you that has died is very different than losing something! It’s lazy language🤦‍♀️

I’ve just googled it, as I’ve always said ‘thing’.

Apparently we’re both wrong, along with many other people!

New baby, I've never met an old one.

😂

I hate it when radio presenters swoon over some non entity whose "album is dropping this week" if something dropped on the radio before it meant it was going down the charts.
Think I need to listen to something else.

It’s B. If something bad happens people usually find a way to let you know asap. Likewise if not much is happening there’s nothing to tell so you don’t hear anything.

Gah. Have been smugly reading pages of the thread cackling and then — bam! Guilty of this one.

In meetings when someone says “let’s put a pin in it”.
Meaning we are not going to discuss this topic now.

Usually as a way of stopping views being aired they don’t like without having to explain why the discussion isn’t relevant to the discussion at hand.

“Horrific murder”….as opposed to those nice, gentle murders.

”Oh you’ve had the baby already, what did you have?” “I had a little girl” Of course she’s little, she’s a baby, could you not have said “I had a girl” or “I had a daughter”?

”That’s £4.99 please”….hands over £5 note…..”One pence change” No! One penny or one pee, not one pence.

”I’m not being funny but”……I didn’t think you were telling a joke.

When working at a leisure facility where we needed to ask the exact ages of children….”He’s nearly seven and she’s coming up four”. So they’re six and three then?

Mention of having babies reminded me of people referring to their baby son as a “little man”.

My DH came through the front door yesterday saying “just to warn you, this isn’t my blood” and I did gasp as he had blood all over the front of his white T-shirt and on his, helpfully, dark red shorts. A very elderly gentleman had fallen over as he walked towards him and had smashed his face on the pavement. My DH is a competent first aider and had helped the man whilst waiting for the paramedic to arrive then walked home briskly the longer back way, trying not to run and give out any more axe murderer vibes than he could help.

Price points and colourways...

I think you mean price and colour...

🤮

Sleeps like a baby???

Should be

Sleeps like a husband 🤣🤣🤣

“carefully curated”

Oh, so not curated in a haphazard or slapdash way, then.

"Choked on her own vomit", as if we're going to be shocked that it wasn't someone else's vomit.

"Tell him to go and do one", with the actual activity never specified.

One I do like though is: "Mad as a cut snake." With the opposite being: "Calm as a cut cucumber."

Circle back round gives me similar rage levels as reaching out!

‘T’ is shorthand for ‘truth’ then went on to become spilling tea etc

Canadian here. 👋🙂

"I could care less" is also commonly said here. While true it's a mistake, it is such a common one that it has become an accepted alternative.
I explained, on another thread, to think if it this way: I could care less, but it's not worth my time to bother. 🥱🙄
iyswim
🙂

It’s definitely think! You are wrong.

Where I live baby or little girls are often referred to as a "wee wifie".
It makes me want to scream.

Curated or artisan for something that's perfectly ordinary.

Also, "our signature (product)", usually something mundane like a sandwich.

Yes but not one universal length, is that not the point? It can be any length.

Because the full phrase has been dropped - which pisses me off no end.

It is "he/she looks so innocent butter wouldn't melt in their mouth"

A few bad apples - no "A single bad apple will spoil the whole barrel"

Warm your cockles - no "Warm the cockles of your heart" - OK that doesn't make sense either, but there it is.

The proof i in the pudding - no "The proof of the pudding is in the eating"