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Which word or phrase did you understand completely wrong since your childhood and learned about the true meaning/pronunciation years later?
Which word or phrase did you understand completely wrong since your childhood and learned about the true meaning/pronunciation years later?
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It’s a doggie dog world
In like Flint
Draught. I called it drought beer.
“have your cake and eat it, too”
I always thought it’s about getting the cake and then eating it (which is pretty much how cakes work)
“Waste not, want not” means “don’t be wasteful and you won’t lack for things”, not “don’t waste something just because you don’t want it” – i.e. “you should hoard”.
Glass half full / glass half empty
Chester drawers
I thought xeriscaping was zeroscaping until I was like 28.
I thought several meant exactly 7 of something until i was probably 16.
For all intense purposes
“Let’s get down to brass tacks”
Always thought it was brass tax
Also “play it by ear”
I thought it was “play it by year” like, we can change what we’re doing annually.