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    Sayings That You Just Don't Get..

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      He meant you could have gotten a blue car for just a quarter more, I think lol
    • Posts: 110 Member
      "At the end of the day." I get it but I don't like it.

      Do you simply mean "ultimately"?
      If you are really talking about the end of the day, when did it begin? 12 midnight? What time zone? Is it the work day? What about folks who work a graveyard shift? I could go on forever...
    • Posts: 110 Member
      I have another: "I preplanned it".

      If you are looking ahead and laying out strategy wouldn't just "planned" suffice? If you realy mean "preplan" wouldn't this mean it is before you come up with a plan and have no strategy at all?
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      "At the end of the day." I get it but I don't like it.

      Do you simply mean "ultimately"?
      If you are really talking about the end of the day, when did it begin? 12 midnight? What time zone? Is it the work day? What about folks who work a graveyard shift? I could go on forever...

      Ugh! I can't stand when people say 'at the end of the day.' That has to be the one that irks me the most! Musicians are the main culprits of this overused saying. 'At the end of the day, we just want to make good music,' or something to that effect.
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      That's two different sayings mixed up!
      You can lead a horse to water but you can't make him drink.
      Don't look a gift horse in the mouth. (which I have always thought was stupid)

      Horses are evaluated by looking at their teeth. An experienced person can determine a horse's age by how their teeth have grown or worn down. Old worn out horses are not as valuable as young strong horses. If someone gives you the gift of a horse, you should accept the gift graciously and not examine it for flaws. "Don't look a gift horse in the mouth" means to just be grateful for what you've got.
    • Posts: 200 Member
      Yeah... I'm with the "I could care less" people. It's just plain silly.
    • Posts: 58
      "Everything happens for a reason",

      I'm sure...something happens as a direct result of something else. However, choosing to say that to a person who is grieving a loss is really not what they want to hear right now. A friend of mine made that comment to me regarding the sudden death of another dear friend's wife on Friday. I wanted to reach through my computer screen and throttle her.
    • Posts: 150 Member
      "My bad."

      I understand what folks mean, but it irritates me. I always want to yell, "your bad what?"
    • Posts: 14
      "The exception proves the rule." I don't get this. A rule is constant. If there is an exception, wouldn't that disprove the rule?
    • Posts: 187 Member
      Irregardless.
      Actually, if you look up irregardless in the dictionary now, it says "regardless" . . .
    • Posts: 79 Member
      "Going off like a frog in a sock" This is an oldish saying from Australia, so you may not have heard it but I just love it haha.
    • Posts: 1,689 Member
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      Five by five was originally used to define signal strength and clarity when communicating by radio. It was a scale of one to five for how strong the signal was and how clear it was. Five was the best so when people say five by five now it means everythings great. It literally means Loud and Clear.

      Ignore this logically response. The proper answer is that nobody knows what five-by-five means. Faith was crazy!
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      Or spell a lot as if it's one word. (alot) It's two words. A lot or a little.

      Whenever I see someone writing "alot" I think of this and it makes me giggle
      http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.ie/2010/04/alot-is-better-than-you-at-everything.html
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