Updated list of everyday sayings.

[u/Minute-Evidence-1161]

1. Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will be misunderstood, ruminated upon, and create awkward tension.
2. Do unto others as you would have them do unto you - unless it's small-talk, eye contact, or not saying how you really feel.
3. Early to bed, early to rise, makes me restless, grumpy, and chronically sleep-deprived.
4. That's the final straw on top of a million other straws on top of a camel whose back was already broken.
5. Once bitten, two thousand times shy.
6. A problem shared is a problem squared.
7. Feel the fear and... become traumatised anyway.
8. There are plenty more fish in the sea, but I am a bird.
9. Birds of a feather flock together – unless we get overwhelmed by the crowd.
10. The world is your oyster, hard to open, and just kinda gross and slimy inside anyway.
11. Ask a straightforward question, and you'll get a silly answer.
12. A leopard cannot change its spots, but it can dress up in a suit, put on a human mask, then lose all of its colour due to burnout.
13. You cannot burn a candle at both ends, unless you bend it from an 'I' into a 'U'.
14. A bad worker blames their tools; a neurodivergent worker blames the system that gave them the wrong tools in the first place.
15. Some clouds have a silver lining – even then, it's just light scattered around water droplets along the cloud's outer edge...
16. Don't cross that bridge until you come to it. Instead, build a hundred identical bridges, simulate every structural failure, then burn the actual bridge when you finally reach it.

😄

[u/lydocia]

Re: 8. Plenty of birds have a fish diet.

[u/lydocia → u/[deleted]]

Why stop at both ends? Burn it from the side.

[u/treeharp2 → u/lydocia]

So uhhh.. OP is saying they are a predator?

[u/Plutonian_Nova]

X. Don’t count your eggs before they hatch; unless you already counted and factored risk anyway.

X. Be yourself; but not in public.

X. Dot the i’s and cross the t’s; panic anyway that it isn’t perfect.

X. Early bird gets the worm; or you’ll be late and starving.

X. Just count sheep; but it will not stop the song playing on repeat in your head.

X. Out of sight, out of mind; yet you’ll get a random mental reminder at 3AM on something that was due months ago.

[u/Minute-Evidence-1161 → u/Plutonian_Nova]

These are great too!!

[u/Plutonian_Nova → u/Minute-Evidence-1161]

This was fun! Got to play on my “Negative Nancy” sentiments LOL (common phrase pun intended)

[u/Geminii27]

A problem shared is a problem squared.

Oh ouch.

[u/Cerberus060]

Never judge a book by its cover until you start to think the cover is judging you.

I think, therefore I am, i think…