Nice array of socks and all the things that you all want in your perfect sock... you are all a little strange... only requiring exactly the perfect sock for all occasions.....

This week, I had seen something completely hilarious... someone had written a thing about how they had heard the quote "Knowledge is Power - Francis Bacon" as a child.... and how they had always thought (until recently) that people were saying, "Knowledge is Power, France is Bacon"!... and for years had wondered what the cryptic connection between the two things was....

Anyway, this has led me to thinking about the many things that we've heard, either as a child... or as an adult... that we've completely misunderstood... but never realised until later!

My Question

1. What is something that you've misheard... and not realised until much later that you've completely missed the point?

My sample answer

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When I was a kid... I remember quite distinctly that my mother would go around telling people that she would give them a ring... I thought it was a touch curious that my mum would be going around handing out rings to friends and acquaintances... but hey, I'm a kid and what do I know?

Many years later (thankfully, not toooo many years later)... I figured out that it was just a figure of speech that just referred to her giving them a call on the phone...

... can you imagine how weird I thought it was when she sometimes said that she would give them a "tinkle"?

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