FabSwingers.com forum: like the back of my hand.

By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

When you claim to know something well, this is a popular saying used.

But do you really know the back of your hand that well? Give me a piece of paper and I'd draw a hand that looked like any other, I wouldn't remember every last detail like veins, knuckle wrinkles etc. So it seems an odd comparison, saying you know somewhere like the back of your hand. Yes I have too much time on my hands (at the minute anyway).

Are there any other sayings/phrases that really don't match up, when you think about it?

By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"I can't be in two places at once" completely wrong statement at any given time yet we do say it sometimes

By *iamondjoeMan
over a year ago

Glastonbury

"Fools rush in where angels fear to tread,"

Yet:

"He who hesitates is lost."

Go figure

By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

""Fools rush in where angels fear to tread,"

Yet:

"He who hesitates is lost."

Go figure "

I'll let someone else