To have completely misunderstood the meaning of some sayings?

[KermitTheToad]

I only found out today that the term Social Butterfly refers to someone who is outgoing and loves social events. I thought it meant you didn't like social events, as in you would fly away and avoid them. I also until recently thought that a Spendthrift is somebody who is frugal in their spending. I assumed that as thrifty meant not being wasteful, that Spendthrift meant being careful in what you spent.
YANBU..I see where you are coming from.
YABU.. You are a wally, go back to school!

I've been educated. I thought I had a pretty good grip on the English language but I'd never heard of 'hoist by your own petard' before. All the others I had heard of and understood the correct meaning.

I only learned recently that, "you're a sight for sore eyes" does not mean you look a mess!

Your friend is wrong sorry. Its just means dark hair and isn't related to skin colour.

More a mishearing than a misunderstanding but a recent MN poster complained about her touchy friend and said she was a real ‘Jacqueline High’. Up there with another poster who read a book that was so good it should win a Pullet Surprise. Winner, winner, chicken dinner?

Free rein.

I think your understanding is correct tbh

We should've stuck with spend-all centuries ago for spendthrift - much less confusing!

There used to be somewhere called Salubrious Passage where I grew up. It most definitely wasn't so for years I thought salubrious meant the opposite of what it actually does.

Oh, I know, I couldn't find I already made GIF of a triffid though... But I appreciate your attention to science fiction botany :-)

Jekyll and Hyde I'm guessing?! Took me a minute to understand what she had possibly meant to say.

You've got the first one right and the second one wrong.

That's correct, sorry I don't know if you are correcting someone else! Reign is the royals; rein is what you put on a horse to control it so if you have "free rein" you can do what you like.

Yes!!!!! So if you watch a poker game show zero emotion on their face and the amateurs can't help but look a bit happy or sad. To make money from poker, you need a damn good poker face ( reveals nothing to your opponents)

Hoist by your own petard is pretty common, particularly with comedians. It's from Hamlet.

Until recently I thought shanks pony was a real pony.

The way you quoted doesn't make sense, because they wouldn't be a friend at all if they were using you.

I'm on tender hooks to find out, and "woah" is me

Whoops. Studied Hamlet for either GCSE or A Level and didn't know this!

2 beans, a bean and a half, half a bean and a bean 😉

Your friend is wrong.

I think I’m like you, I kept re reading bc I read it that OP thought spendthrift meant careful with money but found out it meant frugal (which is the same thing). I have no idea why I couldn’t understand the sentence 😂

Love this

I doubt that you would find that word in any dictionary.

It could mean either but normally in reference to dark features like hair and eyes

Lucked out means got lucky in the USA and got unlucky in Australia.

I was charged with doing an office inventory at a new job i was early twenties. I was going around counting the lovely plants when it came to the plant section. Omg how they giggled. 😊