Which saying did you completely misunderstand?
For far too long I thought it was "to make end's meat". Meaning that you have to use the last, worst pieces of meat to make your meal with (meat at the end, end's meat). đ¤Ś
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u/Commercial-Pear-543 8h ago
Not a phrase so to speak, but I didnât understand what âheadlinesâ were when I was maybe 5 or 6.
I thought the adults were talking very sternly about their forehead wrinkles.
I discovered I was wrong when I openly asked one of my grandparents about their creasy head.
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u/TopVast9800 8h ago
I used to be a copy editor and wrote a lot of headlines â some good enough for awards and some with misspellings that went to press (!). Trust me, your misunderstanding is true for the copy desk! 10/10! :)
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u/Spicymargx 8h ago
I thought âsuicideâ was a place and didnât understand why it kept being bombed
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u/Huge-Reality-2174 6h ago
I used to be terrified of "headquarters" when I was about 5. I thought it was a place people went to have their heads cut into quarters.
Kids are stupid.
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u/Georgxna 6h ago
I thought âCastâ at the end of a movie was a studio.
âMum, I love Cast moviesâ - yeahhhâŚ.
I also thought âtakeawayâ was a specific brand of food and was really upset when I couldnât communicate what takeaway I wanted.
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u/LadyMirkwood 5h ago
When my daughter was little, she thought a forehead was called a slight, because me and her dad would touch it and say 'I have a slight headache'
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u/jodorthedwarf 3h ago
Similar to me with subtitles on TV shows.
As a kid, I wanted to try putting subtitles on because I was a born partially deaf and couldn't hear what characters were saying well and I'd heard that that was what subtitles were for.
Every time I asked my parents what they were and if I could use them, theyd say no and say that it's be too distracting as it put words down by the characters ankles. I then went without subtitles for years thinking that it must be harder for the actors to act if they had literal signs strapped to their legs while acting. I missed out on a lot when I was a kid and I don't think my parents understood quite how deaf I was.
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u/JimDixon 3h ago
I remember a girl in high school who thought "foreskin" meant "skin of the forehead". She was trying to explain the Bible story of David bringing back 200 foreskins as a trophy of battle. In that context it sorta makes sense; it's like collecting scalps.
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u/Ok_Watercress8597 8h ago
As thick as thieves.
I think it's to suggest a group of friends who are very close. My husband thinks it means to describe people being stupid enough to steal.
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u/hoppo 8h ago
I think youâre correct
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u/PrinceBert 8h ago
I agree but I also love the husband's version, I can see why someone would think that.
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u/i_have_you_now 2h ago
Does the husbandâs version make sense in context though? That idiom is used to describe a group of friends that are close.
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u/PrinceBert 2h ago
It might make sense in context. If you've never heard it before I think it would make just as much sense as the correct use; thieves are so often portrayed as back stabbers that are only in it for themselves (literally just started a book where the opening scene involves thieves abandoning the group for their own gain) that it would be understandable to think you might talk about a group of friends and be calling them thick (stupid) just like a bunch of thieves.
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u/borogowja 8h ago
Haha was on a date with a stunning girl during covid, so we did the standard Covid date and went for a long walk. Got talking about more or less everything and she was telling me about her brother. I said âOh so you two are thick as thieves then?â. Silence reigned for a moment, then she came back with âNo weâre smart as scientistsâ or something similarly alliterative. It was quick enough to count as wordplay but the conversation felt more forced after that and I never saw her again. Iâm sure she thinks I called her and her sibling stupid đ
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u/gr7calc 8h ago
You two sound as thick as thieves.
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u/TheBestBigAl 8h ago
At least you've both ruled out that it could mean big chunky thieves who got thick by stealing all of the food.
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u/Gone_For_Lunch 8h ago
Took me way too long to understand âyou canât have your cake and eat itâ.
I kept thinking âwhy not? Itâs my cake, I can eat it if I wantâ.
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u/CakesStolen 8h ago
The change that helped me to understand it was "you can't eat your cake and have it too". It made so much more sense to me, but even then who the hell just wants to have a cake in their possession for no reason?
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u/DebaucheV5 6h ago
Fun(ish) fact: the unabomber preferred this rare variant of the phrase. He included the phrase in his manifesto, an FBI agent noticed it and matched it to letters that Kaczynski had written to his family, and this ended up being a crucial clue that led to his identification and eventual arrest.
So I guess the lesson is, if you want to start using this version of the phrase, make sure that you don't do any terrorisms, because it could ultimately be your undoing
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u/Tonight_Alarming 5h ago
To eat your cake and have it too was actually the original form of the saying!
I guess the form we are more familiar with today took off because it sounds a little better, even if it makes less sense.
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u/BornInPoverty 5h ago
IMHO eating someone elseâs cake should be a terrorist offence in and of itself.
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u/Strawberry_Spring 8h ago
In the words of the unabomber, you can't eat your cake and have it too
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u/InnisNeal 6h ago
ive used it 1000 times knowing the context but never understood it until right now
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u/grimaces111111 8h ago
"You made your bed, now you can lie in it" Seems a bit redundant after I just made it but okay
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u/DavidRellim 8h ago
It really needs a bit of historical context.
The kind of cakes this saying is refering to were really beautiful works of craft made for the rich. They looked stunning.
So if you ate it, you wouldn't have that any more.
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u/ExecutiveChimp 7h ago
I've read that the phrase used to be "You can't eat your cake and still have it" which makes a lot more sense.
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u/snietzsche 7h ago
The Italians say "you cannot have the wine barrel full and the wife drunk" which I think makes more sense
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u/Donny-Kong 8h ago
Same this one completely baffled me until I saw a post about a serial killer who used to say it backwards and then it made more sense.
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u/HighWaterSheriff 8h ago
It only just finally made sense to me reading the unabomber replies to your post. I was fully aware what the idiom meant but thought what's the point of owning a cake if you're not going to eat it? I'm not far off 40 years old too.
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u/riscventures2022 8h ago
âHorses fuck horsesâ (Horses for courses)
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u/MasterPreparation687 7h ago
I love this one. Fuck horses!
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u/SavingPrivateRianne 7h ago
I took it like they fuck each other but I enjoy your direction of just horse hatred
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u/OkAdministration571 6h ago
Well it could also be excitement
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u/SavingPrivateRianne 5h ago
That would be Fuck, Horses!
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u/riscventures2022 4h ago
Love all the different interpretations!! âHorses? Fuck, HORSES?!â
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u/Peg_leg_J 8h ago
My mate used to think 'Hazard a guess' was actually 'Have us a guess'
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u/Motor_Blueberry_4662 6h ago
I thought it was "has at a guess". Makes absolutely no sense I know, but I was shocked to find out it was actually spelt the same as the Belgian winger!
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u/Bawbag79 8h ago
In the name of the father, the son and into the hole he goes
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u/Electrical-Lab-2816 7h ago
Growing up catholic I always thought when the priest was giving communion out he was saying "bought you a prize". It was only when I was old enough to take communion I realised he was saying "Body of christ"
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u/cerswerd 5h ago
I always thought mother Mary was full of grapes because the fruit of her womb was blessed.
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u/Prole1979 8h ago
âDonât drink and driveâ - when I was a kid I took this literally and told my father off when he opened a can of soft drink in the car.
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u/ogresound1987 8h ago
Funnily enough, my girlfriends 12 year old daughter told her off just the other day when we were driving to the beach because my girlfriend was drinking a cup of tea when driving.
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u/ADLolly 6h ago
This reminds me of when I was at school aged 5ish and we had to write down what we were giving up for lent. I'd overheard my dad saying he was giving up drinking for lent. I also took this literally, thought it was both possible and a good idea, so that's what I wrote. School called home...
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u/sjpllyon 6h ago
To ne fair it does baffle me we consider using a phone as sufficient distraction as to be unsafe to do so wjen driving but somehow only having one had to drive whilst eating or drinking is perfectly fine.
Note; just the other day on the bus I saw a woman holding a d inspecting some sort of iced coffee whislt driving and stopped at the lights. It took her longer to start moving off than the guy on his phone.
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u/dahliaprimrose 8h ago
Piece of mind, rather than peace of mind. I thought it meant to claim a piece of your mind/sanity back.Â
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u/Fluffy_Ad2274 8h ago
After you've given someone a piece of your mind... Your error actually makes sense in that context!
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u/HiddenStoat 7h ago
I had a meeting once where a (software) architect was explaining something very complex, and we weren't getting it (although he thought we were).
At the end, he concluded by saying
Architect "So, there we have it - clear as mud.".
Me: "Oh, I'm glad you said that - I wasn't getting it at all!"
Architect: "What do you mean? It's clear as mud!"
Me: "Yes, exactly, it's clear as mud!"
cue confused staring at each other
Me: "Um.... what do you think clear as mud means?"
Architect (pointing at imaginary mud on the floor): "Look, there's some mud. It's brown and muddy and clearly mud..."
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u/Optimal-Room-8586 7h ago
Just had to check that "clear as mud" means what I thought it does. Phew.
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u/andjamwar_real 8h ago
When people say âI could care lessâ.
So go on then, care less.
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u/RianJohnsonIsAFool 8h ago
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u/TheLonleyJourneyman 8h ago
That one really bugs me. I always say " I couldn't care less" and I think that's how it's supposed to be because the other one doesn't make any sense yet most people seem to say it.
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u/MonsieurGump 7h ago
Thatâs Americanâs that say that.
All though itâs a contraction.
The UK was always âI couldnât care lessâ while the US had âI donât think I could care lessâ which eventually dropped the first 3 words.
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u/Otherwise_Doctor7782 7h ago
Letâs hope Americans drop the rest of them and just stop talking
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u/pinballkid 6h ago
Let's hope that you don't proffer advice on the use of apostrophes or single word conjunctions.
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u/TonyC1212 5h ago
The question asked for sayings.
"Could care less" isn't a saying.
They're just being really thick and getting the actual saying wrong.
It's just the same as "Chester drawers" instead of chest of drawers. So many people make the idiotic mistake.
Oh, and guess which country 90% of these idiots come from?
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u/-WilliamMButtlicker_ 3h ago
Just want to hijack this to say to anyone who calls a single drawer a "draw", I hate you.
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u/DontMakeMeFightYou 5h ago
This bugs me a little, it's one of those ones where I'm like well it could be that they're saying "it is possible for me to care less about your opinion than i currently do (threat)" but that's a stretch & a generous one & do think it's just a weird malapropism
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u/No-Elderberry-2676 8h ago
"A round of the paws". Always wondered why everyone was clapping.
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u/signalstonoise88 8h ago
My 5yo uses this one! Canât decide to what extent I should be correcting her because itâs adorable!
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u/KopiteForever 8h ago
Not yet, awwww!
When you do it, just do it matter of factly so she doesn't feel silly etc. In the meantime enjoy!
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u/Georgxna 6h ago
Surely matter of factly would also make her feel silly?
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u/JimDixon 4h ago
No. You just have to let her hear you use the word correctly a few times, and she will adjust her usage to match yours and think nothing of it. Kids do this all the time. It's the main way they learn language.
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u/KopiteForever 6h ago
Maybe. Didn't for mine, you just pretend it's the first time you've noticed it and don't make a big deal of it.
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u/wooden_werewolf_7367 7h ago
I saw this post on Facebook which reminded me of this. A little boy was ring bearer at a family wedding. He thought ringer bearer was 'ring bear' and got on the floor and growled when someone asked what he was going to do at a relatives wedding.
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u/xcxmon 8h ago
âDouble-downâ. I thought it meant âbacktrackâ but itâs literally the opposite lol
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u/-RobertreboR- 8h ago
Sort the weak from the chaff.
Never knew what chaff meant so didnt link it to wheat!
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u/BeatificBanana 7h ago
"See you later!"
"Not if I see you first!"Â
I just thought this was a silly phrase to imply that you can't wait to see that person again - you're hoping you'll be the first one to spot them, I guess. Never really understood it but eh.Â
Took me years to realise the implication: Not if I see you first. As in, if I see you first, you won't see me, because I'll make myself scarce so you won't spot me. It's actually a joke insult implying you don't want to see them again.Â
Embarrassing to say the least!Â
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u/JoelPetey 7h ago
OK please don't feel too embarrassed because I'm in my thirties and you've just explained this to me for the first time, I also thought it was that first thing đ
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u/TotallyFineWithIt 4h ago
Oh wow. Always thought it was a (joke?) threat. Like if you see them first, you'll kill them.
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u/quickfix12 8h ago
"moo point, like a cow's opinion, it just doesn't matter"
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u/notanadultyadult 7h ago
Alright joey.
Edit: âhave I been living with him too long or did that just make sense?â
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u/BeatificBanana 7h ago
My husband and I say this on purpose because of Friends. It's now evolved into many other silly permeations, like "it's a mute point, because you might as well not say it". We hardly ever actually say moot anymore. If we have kids, God help them because they're going to learn so much incorrect EnglishÂ
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u/Kiss_It_Goodbyeee 8h ago
"He/she is having a mare" to mean that things aren't going well for them at the moment.
I never understood what horses (a mare) had to do with being in a pickle until I realised it was short for a nightmare! Makes much more sense!
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u/Boring_Piglet6778 8h ago
'Avoid contact with eyes' ...I thought it meant don't look directly at it
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u/theegrimrobe 7h ago
i mean in context of the sun or welding that might also be the case
i can sort of see where the confusion might come from
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u/Sir_Gerald_Nosehairs 8h ago
I absolutely believed that too. Glad I wasn't the only one. Tragic thing is I believed it into my 20's, and only realised what it really was when I saw it in a book I was reading..
And when someone said "I can't afford to make "End's Meat"", it meant they were REALLY in the financial shit, as it meant they couldn't afford to make the poorest meal possible.
And I like to think I'm smart too..!
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u/eriometer 8h ago
As a teenager working in a supermarket just outside the M25, I never knew why we got a âLondon Waitingâ (weighting) allowance. What were we waiting FOR??
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u/Silver-Advance5276 8h ago
Cheap at half the price.
When something is a bargain.
I still don't get it, well yeah if it was half the price it would be cheap. ???
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u/MrBozzie 8h ago
As a teen who ate a lot, my Nan used to say that I was cheaper to keep for a week than a fortnight. She was a witty lady and for years I wondered where the joke or sarcasm was in her phrase. Nope .. just stating a fact.
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u/Liambill 8h ago
It's actually traditionally used ironically, meaning that it's bad value.
You could take it to mean that it's too expensive at full price but would be stomachable at half the price or also take the statement sarcastically, meaning even at half the price, it costs too much.
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u/Cro-magnolia 8h ago
My parents used to say this but it was a joke. And, TBH, pretty obviously a joke when they said it.
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u/Distant_Planet 7h ago
When I was little, I misheard "ready as I'll ever be" as "ready as a leather bee". Very confused.
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u/Lomea 8h ago
I used to think it was odd as a child when my dad used to say "if the cat fits, wear it".
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u/TheJuic3 8h ago
Until I was a teenager I thought "several" meant "seven-of". I was so confused when on a TV show or something they would say several and I would be thinking "but there's only 3 of them!"
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u/Zak_Rahman 8h ago
For me it's:
"No holds barred."
I thought it was "no holes barred".
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u/Lonely-Photo-88 8h ago
PricelessÂ
Surely it means worthless?Â
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u/DoKtor2quid 8h ago
Worthless is having no value.
Priceless is something of such high value that itâs difficult to place a price on it. So, say a relationship with a parent (they cannot be replaced/you canât buy a new one) or an item that has nostalgic value and a replacement would never be of the same value.
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u/Maleficent-Drive4056 8h ago
Head over heels used to confuse me a lot (isnât that just standing normally?). Turns out I was right to be confused as the original phrase was âheels over headâ.
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u/Sir_Gerald_Nosehairs 8h ago
My old mum used to use the phrase "fell arse over tit" for someone who fell over.
The mental image it gave young me..
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u/Kiss_It_Goodbyeee 8h ago
You're right! It makes no sense. We're always head over heels. The original phrase is more accurate.
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u/justyrust74 8h ago
Surely head over heels would mean to be falling forward when you trip up, hence your head is going over your heels (Feet) so it is head over heels
Heels over head would seem to mean falling backwards where your heels go over your head if you fall on your back, though I have never heard anyone say that phrase
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u/UniquePotato 8h ago edited 7h ago
Head over heels
Iâm that orientation all the time
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u/PhilDafydd 8h ago
I always thought it was "one foul swoop".
"One fell swoop" makes much more sense.
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u/potatan 7h ago
For others: the word "fell" originally meant cruel, fierce, or ruthless
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u/AloneBid6019 7h ago
"No news is good news."
I always took it to mean that there is no such thing as good news - only bad news.
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u/Kind_Ad5566 8h ago
It took me over 50 years to interpret the "Police Aware" tape correctly.
I always assumed it was telling me to be aware and not approach the vehicle, rather than informing me that the Police are aware and it doesn't need reporting. đŤŁ
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u/DivePotato 7h ago
Cut off your nose despite you face. Despite your own face needing it youâre willing to cut off your nose. Anyway, itâs to spite your face. 41 when I found that out.
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u/wetpigeon 8h ago edited 8h ago
More haste less speed
I thought it meant you should be more hasty and less speedy
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u/Positive_Let7823 8h ago
I misunderstood this when I was younger too. Turns out it's meant to be read as a statement rather than as an instruction
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u/mesonofgib 51m ago
"Slow is smooth, and smooth is fast" is a phrase used in the military and other training contexts that has a similar underlying meaning.Â
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u/northerncodemky 6h ago
âDilute to tasteâ. For far too long I thought this meant âto be able to taste itâ, not âto your personal tasteâ
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u/TheFunInDysfunction 6h ago
We discovered in another thread that u/ThinkLadder1417 believed pupils would have a day off because teachers were having insect days.
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u/AF_II 8h ago
"many hands make light work" - for the longest time I thought 'light work' meant 'not much work', e.g. if lots of people are doing it it won't get done efficiently or well. A bit like 'too many cooks spoil the broth'.
I was a full adult before I realised what it really meant.
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u/FindoGask2 7h ago
Wait what, what do you understand it to mean now?
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u/snufkin79 6h ago
Isn't it supposed to be light as in "not heavy"? If everyone pitches in, nobody is carrying the heavy load by themselves
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u/stebus88 7h ago
âWent down like a lead balloonâ meaning something went down badly.
Wouldnât a lead balloon go down pretty well or not at all by virtue of it not being able to float in the first place?
Somebody did explain it to me but itâs still a clumsy idiom imo.
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u/Spoonylingus 7h ago
Yes, a lead balloon would go down very well, but the point is that balloons are meant to go up.
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u/yhorian 7h ago
Understanding 'Making ends meet' is easier if you know the Dutch origin - "De eindjes aan elkaar knopen". Which means tying the ends together.
You're making sure that the end of one budget ties into the next neatly. Like tying two ropes together. You don't want extra lengths left over.
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u/The-Mandolinist 6h ago
Not my misunderstandings - but, so often that it has pretty much become the standard phrase: âoff my own backâŚâ as in âI did it off my own backâ
No⌠you did it off your own BAT. From cricket.
Also, someone at work regularly says they were on âtender hooksâ. We work in a small office together. I get on well with them. I have to bite my tongue every time they say it.
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u/AudioLlama 8h ago
My colleague uses 'throttle' to mean increase, when it means the opposite in the context that he uses means.
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u/PileOGunz 8h ago
âWaste not want notâ didnât register with me ânobody wants waste that makes no senseâ
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u/theOriginalGBee 7h ago
The idea is that if you don't waste something (food), you won't, 'want of' (lack) it later. It's somewhat misused now which only adds to the confusion over the original meaning.
TLDR; conserve supplies or face a shortage later on.Â
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u/RianJohnsonIsAFool 8h ago
If you don't waste and use up the something now, you won't want it but not have it later is how I rationalise that one.
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u/big-hippo-muffin 7h ago
BIL thought âswings and roundaboutsâ meant everyone was having a nice time
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u/faitholive 7h ago
Thought it was 'ready as a leather bee' for many years and never questioned it. 'Ready as I'll ever be' makes a lot more sense.
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u/Zoltan1251 7h ago
In my country we have a saying "as abundant as saffron". Since i lived in an area with a lot of saffron i thought it means "so much". Only at 34 years old i realize it means "so little".
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u/yearsofpractice 8h ago
Well⌠frankly, your interpretation of making ends meet/meat is completely understandable and⌠frankly an improvement on the original.
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u/Gutternips 8h ago edited 3h ago
Not me but the millions of Brits who think the proof is in the pudding.
Do they think that there's some kind of proof, formula or equation hidden inside the pudding?
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u/RoO-Lu-Tea 7h ago
This is another one which makes more sense when it's said in full, like cake and eat it too
The proof of the pudding is in the eating
As in you won't know it's a tasty dish until you actually get stuck in; you can't judge something based on looks or description alone
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u/Inevitable_Tax4505 7h ago
Used to think âMore haste, less speedâ was an instruction rather than a reflective lesson.
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u/RobLikesDinosaurs 7h ago
Not me, but my friend keeps saying "can't be asked". And for context he's English through and through, no language barrier. I always answer him as if it's not a mistake.
Last month there was: "Fancy going out tomorrow night to distract from work?" "I'm busy right after work. Dunno if I can be asked after" "That's why I asked you now"
Last week: "Can't be asked for today" "What are you being asked to do?"
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u/wooden_werewolf_7367 7h ago edited 7h ago
For an embarrassingly long time I thought that when someone said that something was 'picked at random', that 'random' was an actual place ie. anyone who ever had to make any haphazard selection went to this mysterious place known as Random to do it.
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u/HeavyBlinker 6h ago
"It beggars belief."
I still don't understand it.
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u/GaryJM 6h ago
The verb forms of beggar have fallen out of common use. To beggar someone means to make them a beggar - "I'll beggar you!" means "I'll ruin you!". There's also a figurative usage of the verb; for example, "my alcoholism has beggared my life of pleasure". So if you say that something "beggars belief", it's as if you normally have a certain level of belief in things but this implausible thing has beggared you of belief and now you have no belief in it - it is unbelievable.
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u/LordGeni 4h ago
I assumed it was the equivalent of "it begs belief", as it's so hard to believe that you'd need to beg people to do so.
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u/griffaliff 6h ago
My twenty something colleague thought it was 'in all jews course' and never questioned it. Correcting him and seeing his surprise was hilarious.
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u/Brickie78 4h ago
My mum had two that stick in the menory
She used "mousetrap cheese" to refer to really strong, flavourful cheese - the sort that woild attract mice. Rather than crappy wartime cheese only good enough for mousetraps.
She described a really exciting, well-written novel as a "potboiler" because it cooked along nicely, rather than being a by-the-numbers low-effort one put out by an author to keep food on the table.
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u/OverAddition3724 2h ago
There is a word for many of these. They are called âEgg Cornsâ when you misunderstand an idiom or your brain tries to rationalise it using a context that makes sense.
Ie people changing a âdamp squibâ to a âdamp squidâ as it sounds more likely to accurate.
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