I’d die if…
Seriously?!? I’ve heard this statement a lot. It’s usually from a kind of immature or dramatic person,, but it gets said all the time. I mean really, unless it’s followed by “… a car was dropped on me” or “… I got in a thumb war with a gorilla,” it’s probably not accurate.
You aren’t going to die because some trivial something did or didn’t happen in your life. We tend to blow a lot of things out of proportion in the heat of the moment. Breathe…
I don’t mean any harm, but…
But you really do. That’s why we put this little addition on to our sentences.. because we know it’s going to harm. If you don’t mean any harm, you don’t say you don’t. That’s like saying, “I’m not 8 feet tall” every time you introduce yourself. You wouldn’t do that because it’s not relevant. We say, “I don’t mean any harm” because we probably know we do… or will.
No harm, no foul.
Sure there’s harm, or you wouldn’t be saying this one either. We don’t go around saying this because we just got blessed with a new corvette, we say it because something hurt or we hurt someone else. What we should probably say instead is something like, “It hurt, but I’ll move on soon.” That would be a more accurate statement.
So, What statements do you make or hear like these?
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