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Updated List of Everyday Sayings
- Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will be misunderstood, ruminated upon, and create awkward tension.
- Do unto others as you would have them do unto you - unless it's small-talk, eye contact, or not saying how you really feel.
- Early to bed, early to rise, makes me restless, grumpy, and chronically sleep-deprived.
- That's the final straw on top of a million other straws on top of a camel whose back was already broken.
- Once bitten, two thousand times shy.
- A problem shared is a problem squared.
- Feel the fear and... become traumatised anyway.
- There are plenty more fish in the sea, but I am a bird.
- Birds of a feather flock together – unless we get overwhelmed by the crowd.
- The world is your oyster, hard to open, and just kinda gross and slimy inside anyway.
- Ask a straightforward question, and you'll get a silly answer.
- A leopard cannot change its spots, but it can dress up in a suit, put on a human mask, then lose all of its colour due to burnout.
- You cannot burn a candle at both ends, unless you bend it from an 'I' into a 'U'.
- A bad worker blames their tools; a neurodivergent worker blames the system that gave them the wrong tools in the first place.
- Some clouds have a silver lining – even then, it's just light scattered around water droplets along the cloud's outer edge...
- Don't cross that bridge until you come to it. Instead, build a hundred identical bridges, simulate every structural failure, then burn the actual bridge when you finally reach it.
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u/Minute-Evidence-1161 — 1 day ago