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What popular quote are you tired of hearing? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by PP_BOY_@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

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Bonus points if it's usually misused/misunderstood by the people who say it

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[-] AnalogyAddict@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

"Blood is thicker than water" followed by the equally erroneous "covenant" explanation.

[-] rikudou@lemmings.world 7 points 1 year ago

Well, maple syrup is thicker than blood, so should I move to Canada?

It's sad that such an answer isn't possible in my language, our version goes "blood is not water".

[-] Mkengine@feddit.de 5 points 1 year ago

English is not my first language, so I don't know every English saying, could you spell out what you mean?

[-] rikudou@lemmings.world 5 points 1 year ago

Basically, the family you're related to should always come first (that includes first before the people you have chosen to live with, like your partner) because you "share blood".

Usually said by people whose only "quality" as a person is being related to someone.

Seriously, if someone tells you this unironically, there's a pretty huge chance you should review your entire relationship with them and more often than not you should just stop talking to them whatsoever.

[-] Mkengine@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago

Thanks for the explanation, sometimes there are words I already saw somewhere but never bothered to look them up when they appear so rarely. This was only the second time in my life I read the word "covenant" the first time was for a videogame called Alien: Covenant, but I thought it was some science fiction term.

[-] AnalogyAddict@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_is_thicker_than_water

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