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!

Is now a good time to mention the infamous “Trombolese” as featured in “Freed From Desire” 😜

Yes I know thanks, I'm perfectly parfait with English language!

And then Jen who takes the piss out of him mercilessly, turns out to think that a scapegoat is an escape goat 😂

No, your family had it wrong, it is "like a bomb has hit it", also alternatively "it looks like a bomb site" to describe a mess.

I always get mixed up between ‘in the woes’ and ‘in the wars’. Apparently in the woes is to do with troubles you have but in the wars is if you have an injury. So if you have both you are in the woes and wars!!

Suspend belief vs suspend disbelief

If I'm watching a film I'm suspending disbelief aren't I? - I'm suspending my critical thinking [which tells me these things aren't true] in order to temporarily buy into and enjoy the fiction I'm being shown.

But I've always had a niggling thought that this could also be described as suspending belief. In one sense I'm temporarily suspending my beliefs, or my belief system, in order to enjoy the fiction.

Explained badly, but I hope you get what I mean. 😃

Yeah, when I googled, 'tall, dark, handsome man' I didn't get one single non-white man. It was mostly men that looked like this... It's late, so hopefully the pic won't take long to come up. But basically, olive skinned, blue eyed, dark eyesbrows, dark brown hair, dusky looking. But a white man.

I remember having a conversation with my dad in our car when I was about 10 asking him why we couldn't drive down a the toad if it was working .
It really tickled him and he explained what the sign meant but he couldn't explained why the signs don't say 'road not working '

It’s the opposite of wearing your heart on your sleeve.

Wrong. It's the other meaning - someone who is your friend when you are in need is a true friend

Yeah, THAT is a funny one!

As a kid I thought a stuck pig was squealing because he was trapped and wanted to be set free. It was a long time before I realised that is not what 'stuck' meant in this phrase.

I know its 'looks like a bombs hit it'. They knew 'it looks like a bombs hit it'

But its changed over the years to bomsisit meaning 'a mess'.

Its a bomsitit in here.

Actually, it means the possibility of both.

I love some of these. I always love people writing 'Chester drawers', makes me chuckle.
A friend once told me she thought it was May Cup, until she was about 30, not Make Up.

Yes and dark eyes too

I believe the phrase you’re looking for is ‘Brick Shit House’ aka a well built, tall man who is all muscle 😀

Free rein, NOT free reign.
I can understand the logic behind the latter, but it refers to loosening the reins enough that the horse can make its own decisions about where to go.

I hated it because it had seventy billion verses and I had to really strain my eyes to read the words from the ancient projector, sitting on the uncomfortable infant school gymnasium floor.

So you were pronouncing it like Super Bowl?

(As a child,) hambags and handburgers 😊

I agree about bucolic sounding medical and unpleasant.

No, you are right, it's a reference to dark hair.

Actually, I just googled this one as I was curious and discovered that in this context 'thrift' comes from the old word for wealth. So a spendthrift was someone who spent all their wealth. Not someone who is thrifty with their spending

Yes! I always think this.

Because it is short for 'work is being done on the road', dad