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15 Hilariously Misunderstood Words & Phrases. Are You Guilty Of Any Of These?



1. I always thought that when wait staff asked "soup or salad?" they were
talking about some sort of "supersalad."

Waiter: "Would you like soup or salad?"
Me: "Yes, that sounds lovely."

2. I have a friend who's 27, up until a few months ago while shopping for mini
blinds she didn't know what "hot and bothered" meant, but she made it a point
to tell the sales associate helping her that the Texas heat gets her "all hot
and bothered"... Then she wondered why they kept looking at her like she was a
giant creep.

3. "Elemeno P" instead of " L M N O P". I thought an "elemeno P" was a special
version of the letter P.

4. It took me over 20 years of my life to realize that "all intensive purposes"
isn't even close to correct. It's "all intents and purposes"... I cringe to
think of how many times I used "all intensive purposes" in my university
papers.

5. When I was 10, my sister told me that my grandmother quit smoking "cold
turkey". It wasn't until high school, when I embarrassed myself by telling my
friend to try eating cold turkey to help quit smoking, that I knew what it
really meant.

6. I always thought "Euthanasia" was "Youth in Asia" and couldn't figure out
why it was a big controversial issue. Yeah there are kids living in Asia, so
what?

7. For a long time, I thought the lyrics to Elton John's Tiny Dancer were,
"Hold me closer Tony Danza..."

8. As a kid, I misinterpreted the term "death sentence" for the longest time. I
thought that the executioner actually spoke a sentence into your ear that
killed you if you heard it. I figured that's why he wore a hood, so that no one
could read his lips.

9. I was 20 before I realized Alzheimer's disease wasn't "Old timer's disease"

10. When I was little, I thought "drinking and driving" meant the physical act
of drinking a beverage, not just alcohol. One day when I was 6 I told my mother
not to drink and drive while she sipped a Diet Pepsi. She just laughed at me.

11. Bon Jovi - "Shot through the heart, and you're to blame. Darling, you give
love a bandaid."

12. This actually continued up until fairly recently. I always thought "to each
his own" was pronounced "du ee chay zoh" and just assumed it was a French
saying or something... D'ui cheuseaux.

13. I never understood what was so bad about taking things for granite.

14. When I was a kid, I thought the Transformers were 'Robots in the skies'.

15. When I was young my father said to me: "Knowledge is Power... Francis
Bacon".

But I understood it as "Knowledge is power, France is Bacon".

For more than a decade I wondered over the meaning of the second part and what
was the surreal linkage between the two? If I said the quote to someone,
"Knowledge is power, France is Bacon" they nodded knowingly. Or someone might
say, "Knowledge is power" and I'd finish the quote: "France is Bacon", and they
would look at me like I'd said something very odd but they'd thoughtfully
agree.

I did ask a teacher what did "Knowledge is power, France is bacon" mean and I
got a full 10 minute explanation of the Knowledge is power bit but nothing on
"France is bacon". When I prompted further explanation by saying "France is
Bacon?" in a questioning tone I just got a "yes". At 12 I didn't have the
confidence to press it further. I just accepted it as something I'd never
understand.

It wasn't until years later I saw it written down that the penny dropped.
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