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.
Why are so many about poop?
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”.