Post a idiom/expression you imagined literally

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IMHO more often than not, what passes for style for all too long, is de facto cruelty.

When someone says, "I'd like to give you my heart", the first thing that comes to mind is, "Ewww, first of all, giving me a slimy, pulsating organ is really gross, and second and more importantly, you're gonna die without it!"

My mother used to tell me to "take a powder" when I was being annoying. The real meaning is "get lost" or "scram," coming from a time when most medicine was in powder form, including medicine that made you go to sleep. I always envisioned taking (as in stealing) some kind of powder, like baby powder, so when she'd say that I would go and come back with some powder.

Anyone remember that one cartoon show from the 90s "Bobby's World?" I'm suddenly reminded of how some expressions were drawn out as literal from the imagination of a toddler.

Was at a meeting once in which they gave each of the participants a free empty USB drive as a useful party favor. About half a gig of memory.

If I had thought of it ...I would have thanked them by breaking out into this song!

When I first heard of camel toes, I thought it was some kind of weird foot disorder, like pigeon toes.

And then when I learned what it really meant, I turned a little green around the...lungs?

And of course, pigeon toes sounds like the person has real toes like a pigeon. And bow-legged sounds like someone has bows tied to their legs. It's like something out of that Operation game.

"You've got to carry yourself well if you want people to respect you."

I remember
being very very disappointed
(betrayed)
as a young boy in Sunday School.

The Sunday before
we were told that if
each one of us brought a friend
the following week
we would break records.

I convinced a friend
to come with me
only with vivid descriptions
of vinyl shards flying.

It was not to be.

When I was younger I often heard people say "put a sock in it!", as a rude way to tell someone to be quiet, like "shut up!". I even saw it once done literally on the old Ninja Turtles cartoon. Later I learned that the origin came from back when people would listen to music on their gramophones, and if someone else found the music to loud or annoying they'd tell the person listening to put a rolled-up sock into the funnel to muffle the sound.

I'm a real sucker for learning the origins to sayings like that. And by a sucker I don't mean the lollipop kind.

when i was a little girl i used to hear the grass is always greener on the other side and used to imagine the grass being a darker shade of green because i thought thats what greener meant that it was a darker shade i still forget what it actually means but i know its not what i thought as a little girl
when people say im a dark horse i dont know what this means so imagine a horse
i hate when people are talking about time because i still take them literally when they say they will be with me in two minutes or something like that

They are saying you are an unknown and unpredictable element. Probably because they don't understand you .

I'd take it as a compliment though, the image of a dark horse seems cool af.

I have never heard the term "dark horse" ever used anywhere anytime without the word "candidate" coming after it.

In a horse race when a horse in the middle of the pack suddenly surges forward and overtakes the horses upfront and suprises everyone by winning the horse is called a "dark horse"(regardless of the horse's actual coloration). And the term got applied to candidates in elections (the upset winner behind in the polls who ends up winning would be the dark horse).

So it confounds me why your friends would call you a "dark horse" if you never run for public office. Lol!

Those shoes look terribly uncomfortable!

I remember one time during my childhood, my mother, (a horribly impatient woman,) had to give me a ride to school. Despite being like 6-7 years old, I wasn't the fastest moving child. In a frustrated and sarcastic tone said to me "Whenever you're ready." and without a second thought, I stopped in my tracks. She yelled from the car "What the f**k are you waiting on?" and I responded "I'm not ready." She wasn't very pleased with that.

lol if thats what it means then im still confused why they call me it then

i just googled what dark horse means and this is what comes up
noun
1.
a competitor in a race or contest about whom little is known; an unknown
2.
a person who reveals little about himself or herself or his or her activities, esp one who has unexpected talents or abilities
3. US politics
a candidate who is unexpectedly nominated or elected
https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dicti ... dark-horse i looked on this website i think its because of number 2 they called me that not sure