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  • Didros@beehaw.orgtoChat@beehaw.orgMisusing expressions.
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    1 year ago

    Almost all idioms we use commonly actually originally meant the opposite. “Blood is thicker than water” is a longer saying about chosen family being the true strongest bond. “Great minds think alike” finishes with but fools seldom differ. A few bad apples, spoil the bunch. “Pull yourself up by your bootstraps” only a fool would try it. It’s the most human thing in the world to twist sayings to mean the opposite.