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What I mean is like for example, a person having "gravitational pull" or someone making a "quantum leap" makes no sense to anyone who knows about physics. Gravity is extremely weak and quantum leaps are tiny.

Or "David versus Goliath" to describe a huge underdoge makes no sense to anyone who knows about history, because nobody bringing a gun to a sword fight is going to be the underdog but that's essentially what David did.

I'm looking for more examples like that.

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[–] capital_sniff@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago (3 children)
[–] CanadaPlus 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

Humans are still monkeys. We're a couple laws and an evolutionary blink away from throwing it around.

I can think of even more, actually, like "shit rolls down the hill" (meaning blame naturally shifts to inferiors) and "hope in one hand, shit in the other and see which fills faster".

[–] Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

My partner and I went to the zoo for one of our first dates (13 years ago, holy poop) and when we approached the gorilla, he slowly pooped out a giant log into his hand, slowly brought the poo around to the front, stared us directly in the eyes, and took a big ol bite, moving it around with his tongue and teeth.

Everyone was mortified. We couldn’t stop laughing. I wish I had taken a video of it.

[–] CanadaPlus 2 points 2 days ago

Lol, I think we were the entertainment that day.