To ask for your misheard common sayings?

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My husband thinks I am ridiculous that I always thought the saying "another think coming" was "another thing coming"

It's taken me 38 years to realise this and I now feel rather silly.

@infor yes true!

You do not sound the H at the beginning of the word!

Oh, not the 'haitch'/'aitch' argument again - we must have this once a week on MN. This is regional, and even political in some parts of the UK (NI). 'Haitch' is perfectly valid, and I say that as someone brought up in southern England where 'aitch' was the customary regional pronunciation.

Our Finance Director once sent a mass email saying that he wasn't "casting nasturtiums" 🌷 (hope I've spelt that right 🤣)

Here we go! ('ere we go)

It is thing...

If you think that's happening, you're wrong, another thing is happening

Just as long as you don't tell them that NHS is an acronym, you'll be fine.

My mum and I use these incorrectly often as a joke between us e.g. casting nasturtiums etc.

Hopefully no one overhears us!

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

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I get expressions wrong all the time, much to DH's amusement. His favourite is "to kill one bird with two stones", which is probably accurate in my case. 🤣

It might be because I am completely pissed after a stressful week at work but that strikes me as a brilliant phrase to use when my husband, the winner of the Arch-Faffing Trophy of Faffsville, Faffland, Faffverse, is faffing in his own world of complete and utter unnecessariness.

It's only half the saying, a bit like, "a few bad apples", nop it should be, "One bad apple will spoil the whole barrel" it particularly annoys me when it is said about police forces.

Saying you have 'a few bad apples' actually means the entire force is corrupt / sexist / incompetent - what ever they are claiming.

On my local nextdoor things are frequently, "disc usting"

One so old it has pretty much switched meanings...

'blood is thicker than water' - meaning family is more important than friendship.

In fact the original phrase was:

'the blood of the covenant is thicker than the water of the womb'.

Meaning the bonds you choose to make are stronger than those you had no choice in.

Another...

'Great minds think alike' - ie, we all agree therefore we're probably right/clever, however the original saying was:

Great minds think alike, although fools seldom differ' - just because we all agree, doesn't necessarily mean we're right/clever/smart...

The one that REALLY drives me up the bloody wall though is the Americanism...

'I could care less' - being used to mean the opposite 'I could NOT care less' which is what the phrase should mean. Theres no logical explaination for it, its just bloody stupid.

I had a disagreement with someone a few years ago and they said ‘don’t use me as an escape goat’…they didn’t take too kindly to me bursting into laughter as all I could picture in my head was an escaped goat 🤣

😂 isn't a gander a casual walk or a little bit nosy /something to do with geese ?

You are right.
"I always thought.."
"You have another think coming"
Of course you are right!
LTB 🤨

When I was a lodger my landlady would mis-use "to all intensive purposes"

Your first one is bullshit. The first known use of the "full phrase" is way way more recent then the original first half. It's a fake anecdote that got popular on Reddit but has never been true.

Hopefully not.

Yes! I say exactly this! Grrr.

Is it call the kettle black? Back? (English not first language), I don't get it. In my country we say it is the hospital laughing at charity, the kettle one make no sense to me.

you are a genus @infor

I thought someone was "on tenderhooks" for my whole life. But recently found out its tenterhooks

It's black. Before electric kettles, both pots and kettles used to be made of black metal - cast iron - and blackened by contact with the flames/heat, so they were both black.

The saying is 'look at the pot calling the kettle black!" (Referring to the old, blackened iron pots and kettles that were used in the fireplace). It roughly means you're commenting on someone else's shortcomings/appearance, etc, when you're actually just the same!