Phrases, Idioms & Sayings That Don’t Actually Make Sense! DEBUNKED
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If you’re ‘sweating like a pig’ or are ‘as blind as a bat’ then in fact there’s nothing wrong with you. We use these expressions all the time but it turns out they either mean the opposite to what we think or are just plain wrong. Join us as we take you on a linguistic tour of all the idioms that actually make us sound like idiots.
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humans can see ultra violet light but our lense filters it out.
Wow your first debunking is a lie. Pigs are one of the only mammals like humans that do in fact sweat. They just do not sweat all over their body but dam your first attempt proved your a moron. Pigs sweat from the pores on the neck and chin. Wow I thought you might have some problems with science because there are many different things that get misunderstood but you started off with a blatant lie.
Thanks so much guys! You are making us more smarter and dumber on self expression phrases! “Sweating like a pig!” I hate that phrase!
The first one is related to pig iron, not the animal
A couple of my favorites: “I slept like a baby last night.” Did you wake up every two hours screaming? “He eats like a bird.” Does he eat his own body weight every day?
yeah, but they are talking about the sleeping part, not the waking up every two hours part. When babies sleep, they usually sleep very soundly for those two hours.
The full term is, "Sweat like a stuck pig." It refers to cooking pigs on a roasting spit where they exude melted fat, appearing to sweat.
Humans’ ability to sweat all over have us an edge on the savannah; we could run for long periods without getting overheated so that our prey would eventually just collapse out of exhaustion.
Thanks for the extra info 👍
Pigs are 1 of the very few mammals that do in fact sweat and they do have sweat glands and I know this because I have actually been around living pigs. This is actually common knowledge so the fact that you believe this liar it proves you will believe anyone.
@@jordancambridge4106 my fact doesn’t predicate itself on whether pigs sweat or not. Also, the video did say that pigs do sweat, just not a lot.
@@jordancambridge4106 Someone didn't watch the video lol
Exhaustion and overheating are two separate phenomena
I'm fairly sure that the expression "Where there is smoke there is fire" doesn't apply to modern gas cook stoves. More likely to be forest or camp fires spotted from a distance. I'm going by the time line the expression started.
I must say good call on the pig iron though. Cracking good ;)
There is a saying in Serbia (heard it from my grandpa) that goes: "Pred zoru se mrzne", wich roughly translates to: "It's coldest just before dawn", having the exact same meaning as "It's always darkest before dawn", just being more scientifically correct
Thanks for the fact! Maybe that should become the English language version too 👍
@@DebunkedOfficial Darkest in the saying doesn't have a literal meaning. Think of it this way, The Moon is tidal locked to the Earth so only one side faces the sun. The light side is generally warmer and the dark side is colder. Darkest as used in the saying is equivalent to coldest, meaning they are synonyms of each other. That's like saying the further away from the sun Earth is counts for Fall and Winter while being the closest Earth is to the sun are the Spring and Summer. 👍
Grandpa s all over the world say that about the cold. It's true. I know this from both sides, I've used it myself but I go by Grampy.
You used a common expression which is also factually incorrect: Daniel Beard, a premier outdoorsman and one of the founders of the Boy Scouts once wrote that he had never known anyone to be able to start a fire by rubbing sticks together.
Maybe we should change the phrase to: Alec Baldwin never shoots the same person twice? 🤔
As always, super interesting content! Love this channel!
Thanks for watching José!
Most “everyday phrases” are colloquialisms that are based on misconception in the first place. The main bulk of society has been ignoring the actual explanations in favour of just repeating the thing that smart people say for almost ever.
Like shooting fish in a barrel. It not the aim of the gun but the shooting of it that kills the fish.
Well, you know what they say.
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Hey please tell me how do people make buildings underwater ? I always wonder that, if they use concrete there , don't the concrete washed away after a couple of hour or two ?
Pls answer
I clicked the video because the thumbnail said "not rape"
Part of the R was hidden behind the duration stamp.
"It's always darkest just before the dawn"
I have always thought that to mean that if we have been awake for most of the night, then our spirits will be lowest just before the sun rises.
If we are worried and/or depressed - after a LONG night, we are at our lowest ebb physically, mentally and emotionally. . It is the "Darkest" time in our minds.
Do others have this interpretation of the old saying as I do?
About "sweating like a pig," a main variant of that phrase in the Southern U.S. is "sweating like a STUCK pig," which gives us another possible explanation for the phrase. A "stuck pig" is one that is being cooked on or over a fire; such pigs "sweat" when the fat is rendered and seeps to the surface of the skin.
Undoubtedly the last proverb was more correct when first voiced. Smokeless fires are probably a Twentieth-Century thing. Maybe Nineteenth.
Loooooove the pig iron explanation. That makes perfect sense.
Loves the video! You guys did a great job with this one, as always 👍
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1) pigs and sweat and muck. Growing up on a pig farm we kept our pigs indoors, during summer heat we would cool the barn as best we could as well as keeping lots of cold water available for the pigs. They never tried to get dirty.
2) You can also make charcoal without fire, since you need to heat wood until it stops smoking but not so hot it ignites.
The proverb where there is smoke there is fire was accurate when it was written, they didn't have propane gas stoves they had whale oil lantern or candles which all produce smoke in some form when burned.
Yus true
The embers and/or wet/ green wood(and lack of fire) makes smoke. I'm not a scientist, bit I've built a lot of fires and there isn't always smoke.
If lightning never strikes the same place twice lightning rods would have to be moved around after every time they were struck.
Got a couple for ya: desert island- perverted from DESERTED island. If you're on a desert island, your lifespan is limited to 4 to 5 days depending on temp. I could care less- to reduce an amount at all, you have to have an amount to reduce, in other words, you care. I could not care less- meaning you don't care at all. Can't care less than not at all
Park Ranger, Roy Sullivan, before getting struck an eighth time, took his own life. Not sure if this was due to the depression that being struck can lead to, or the depression of realizing that someone was out to get you with lightning bolts.
Here's another popular saying that doesn't make much sense
"They're talking a mile a minute"
Used to describe someone who's talking very fast.
If you do the math, a mile a minute boils down to 60 miles an hour..
60 MPH is not very fast by today's speed standards
"There's no smoke without fire!"
Smoke machines.
The reference of the darkness being at its utmost right before dawn was an inspirational saying, and a play on human weakness in regards to what time of day our eyes work the worst. It's not very inspirational to say the night is darkest just after sunset. Hence why that one was never said. But it is considered by most to be more inspirational to someone that is having hard time to be told that the times are the hardest right before everything gets better. Hence the night being darkest, just before Dawn.
I am not an authority but I'm sure that's really what they meant. It has nothing to do with the location of the Sun. Or when it is the darkest of the night in actuality. Because in the darkest part of the night most humans can see better in more situations and more accurately then they can at either one of the twilights.
Did anyone else misread the thumbnail as, "not rape?"
Ths one with the smoke and the fire is differenr in Dsnish, where it is "Der går ikke røg af en brand uden ild." "Røg" translates to "smoke", but now comes the problem. Both "brand" and "ild" translates to "fire", but the words has two different meanings in Danish. "Brand" refers to a fire in like "the house is on fire" while "ild" refers to the actual burning. So in the case with the firemaking there is no "brand" until it burst into flames ("ild"),
This is why for over a decade I say Im blinder than a bat.
I believe the literal meaning of "It is always darkest just before the day dawneth" actually means right before midnight, which does seem accurate.
From WikiPedia:
Roy Cleveland Sullivan (February 7, 1912 - September 28, 1983)
He was told to have been avoided by people during the later years of his life, owing to fears of being struck by lightning, and that this saddened him. He once recalled "For instance, I was walking with the Chief Ranger one day when lightning struck way off (in the distance). The Chief said, 'I'll see you later.'"
I'm so going to hell but I laughed my ass off with that last line.
Poor chap shot himself in the head in 1983.
6:43 @Debunked "One thing that is a constant is the night is coldest just before sunrise". Not necessarily true - it depends on winds - winds coming off a desert etc or other warm air masses just before dawn may heat up the air and make it warmer than several hours earlier when there was no wind.
Thanks for the additional information, this line got cut in the penultimate edit and then we added it back in.
@@DebunkedOfficial I'm just happy to see the word penultimate if I may consider you used it correctly.
Another thing that is not taken into account with it "darkest before dawn" is that it might mean when the light is in the sky making everything seem darker before the sun gets high enough to shine on everything.
At dawn, when the sky starts to brighten, (and if there is no moonlight) it will effectively be darker, because the light in the sky will prevent your eyes from adjusting to the darkness, making it seem like the darkest part of night is literally the twilight time between night and day, because that's how we perceive it. The metaphor is referencing perceptions, because it means the worst part of something is just before it gets better, so that one is not incorrect in the least.
First I want to say, I love your channel. Your videos are fun and very informative. I rather enjoy them! :) Second, you should look into Roy C. Sullivan more. It turns out Guinness took his word after the first truly plausible strike and they did not verify the rest. The injuries and damage he received in the six after do not match up with what we know happens to people when they are struck by lightning. Toenails don't get blown off, not once was there any evidence of Lichtenberg figures even though his supposed strikes would have surely left them, and a strike to the head....will most likely kill you. He took a blow torch to that hat and even himself but it sounded so amazing that no one questioned him.
The truth most likely is Roy C. Sullivan was a liar who got off on all the attention he received so he kept making up stories of being struck to keep that attention on him. His stories just do not add up when you look at how random his claims were. It is impossible to be hit seven times at varying heights and places because adding in that random factor increases the odds exponentially, especially when the odds are so low to begin with. Lighting does indeed strike the same place more than twice as you said, but only when there are factors driving that occurrence. Statistics and probability are real and anything that sits so far outside of them is almost assuredly fake. Con men are a dime a dozen in this life, but people who have been directly struck by lightning even once are not. There are verified cases of people receiving more than one strike, but again, circumstances increased the odds. That man is not the Empire State Building and he should not be cited anymore since he was a con artist who lied for fame.
ah no one cares it was atleast interesting
@@guyonYTube The truth is interesting, just never simple. Sigh, such is the state of the world though. People would rather believe easy lies over complex truths.
Some other phrases that are wrong (a few among things Mythbusters covered at some point)
- You can't polish [poop]; You can, provided a technique used on material such as dirt.
- Hitting the ground running; This provides no benefit taken literally. If you were to run, it's better to start standing on the ground as your feet actually need to push on the ground to move (same with any vehicle).
- Drink 8 glasses of water a day; An old hydration tip that I'm pretty sure has been discarded. "8 glasses" isn't even a real or valid measurement as they come in varying shapes and sizes, and people don't necessarily drink from glass (rather plastic cups from fast food or ceramic mugs), nor straight H2O (soda, coffee, juice, etc). I enjoy a particular animation by Chris Hallbeck about this.
- Shooting fish in a barrel; Well, it's not incorrect that it's easy to shoot fish contained in a barrel, but it's impossible to take literally due to how vague the premise is, ultimately rendering the phrase meaningless. Big fish, little fish, the angle of fire, several fish? Is it a barrel filled with nothing but fish, therefore any bullet I fire will hit at least one fish? Am I expected to use a handgun, or can I pull out a gatling gun and just obliterate the barrel entirely? Also if the goal is to kill the fish, the shockwave of the bullet passing through water alone is enough.
My favorites have always been 'eat like a bird' and 'eat like a horse'.
“Happy as a pig in sh”
“MUD”
I've always interpreted "It's darkest just before dawn" figuratively (or emotionally) rather than literally. It's physically (and thus literally) darkest during astronomical midnight, but it is emotionally (and thus figuratively) darkest right before colloquial dawn (whether fully literal or slightly figurative dawn)
The rest of these are interesting info
Didn't that guy who was struck 7 times by lightning end up killing himself? I would feel personally attacked by storm clouds and awfully lonely if I had that happen to me.
Yup. Roy survived the lightning strikes but not love. Ostensibly, he shot himself because of unrequited love. 😒
True, we didn't add that in as it felt like a bit of downer to end on.
@@DebunkedOfficial ha! Definitely. I think it's fine. It didn't add or subtract from the point that lighting really can, and does, strike more than once.
Being struck by lightning would cause massive changes in your brain. It's not uncommon for strike survivors to undergo severe depression and other problems as a result of that much electricity traveling through their bodies. It's like shocking a computer with the electrical surge jumping through the circuits and scrambling some of them or damaging them permanently. A person's brain also undergoes a similar surge and usually ends up with permanent damage or changes.
Pigs, like dogs, regulate their body temperature through respiration. Working in animal transport, we were admonished to always keep a flow of fresh air moving over loads of pigs. Cooler air was nice but fresh air was imperative If the pigs did sweat, it was around their eyes. At that point, one could try misting them with water but they were likely internally so overheated that they wouldn’t survive. Proud to say I never lost one.
I know that lightening does strike the same place twice. What was a beautiful 60 yr old sunset maple tree in our yard has been hit twice that we saw. The 3rd time we heard it but not sure if it was hit or the wind got it. That same summer our neighbors hickory was hit twice in the same night. His tree is about 110 feet from our maple.
I believe the phrase was originally "sweat like a pig butcher" and at some point the butcher fell off.
"Sweat like a pig" may have come From "sweat like a hog" from a hogshead
Lightning never strikes the same spot twice is meant in one storm not over the period of the year
What about "Moving like a bat out of hell"? I was waiting for a clip form Star Trek The Next generation (episode Bobby Trap, the chief engineer explaining the ship's engines in detail are working) and says "Captain, we should be moving like a bat outta hell"
In my country nobody says "blind as a bat", but rather "blind as a mole".
The beads of water condensing on cooling pig iron sounds like bs to me. For water to condense, the surface must be cooler than the surrounding air. The surface of cooling pig iron would be warmer.
I know one that keep appearing in a bbc publicity add "There is nothing like this in the world".
Hello! Is that thing not in this world??
This made me laugh out loud
I have seen lighting hit an FM tower x2 in one minute.
Are there any sayings/expressions/metaphors/idioms that are used incorrectly that drive you crazy?
I could care less drives me crazy when it should be I couldn’t care less. The first means you do care and there’s a smaller amount you could care, the second means you don’t care at all.
" Ugly as fuck "
" Sexy as fuck "
And so on....
“Blood is thicker than water” gets mis-used all the time; it does not mean that blood family is superior. It’s a shortening of a phrase along the lines of “the blood shed together is thicker than the water of the womb” which means the exact opposite.
@@esteemedmortal5917 that is actually on our list for another video 👍 Great comment!
@@DebunkedOfficial
As dry as a bone
It's so hot today, i sweat like an iron.
Do you think it will catch on? 🤔
Maybe
"You can't judge a book by its cover." Of course you can. But, "You can't ALWAYS judge a book by its cover."
You CAN always judge a book by its cover. After reading it however, you may realize your judgement was wrong.
@@DragonAurora Nice!
The first video I watched (yesterday) I thought your channel was "ebunked"
Funny and Educational video=)
i actually witnessed a super blue blood moon a few years ago! it was also the first eclipse i have ever seen, which is cool
no, i have never seen a solar eclipse before, only two total lunar eclipses including that one
13:30 Hey look it's my grilled cheese
"Lightning never strikes the same place twice"
It is actually correct. It strikes the same place more then 2 times.
“I can’t see a thing without my Velma Dinkley’s.”
Thanks for giving us a scientificaly aproved version of every of your debunked proverbs as posible, especialy the 11:40 one. I might use this because I hat to use any proverb without scientific legitimation, but probably can't memorize all of your alternate proverbs. Sadly. 4:33 Do bats then see UV like we see blue? At least this colour blindness indeed won't make sense. 10:22 We could use this as alternative names for the months. 11:49 Instead of your alternate proverb, I'll just say "this is sus" instead of some "if there's fire, there might be smoke" stuff.
Where there is smoke, there is fire. That is actually true because smoke is fire. When we say fire we usually refer not to chemical process of oxidation, but to the visible flames. And what are the flames? They are streams oh hot gas that is the byproduct of the process of burning. And what is smoke? It's the exact same think: stream of hot gasses byproduct of the process of burning. The only difference is that when they are very hot they glow and we call them flames, and when they get cooler they stop glowing and we call them smoke. So smoke is just a clod fire.
In your example with the pizza, that was burning but not hot enough to be self sustaining. And since it was not too hot, the gas streams were not how enough to glow so we call them smoke and not flames.
"Even the most beautiful rose has thorns" is wrong from a botanical viewpoint.
Roses have spikes, and cacti are the ones who have actual thorns. There's a difference.
That is nitpicking.
botanists 😒
I think "Sweating like a pig" nowadays is more used to say "I'm sweating so much that I will smell really bad and so I'm dirty like a pig"
well at least that's how I've always understood it, I never thought this had anything to do with a pig sweating
I missed the "quantum leap" for a great improvement or important advance in something.
Stu the best voice of youtube. Said
Why thank you! You make me blush ☺️
@@DebunkedOfficial 🤗❤
I remember listening to a Ted talk I believe it was, where they spoke about how humans' perspiration is our biggest natural advantage over any other species, outside of our intellect. Our early ancestors would basically run their prey to death. Hope native Americans were traveling over 100 miles a day on foot. Humans are actually capable of outrunning horses when it comes to endurance, albeit very healthy humans.
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Prince Andrew: ”so yeah anyway I was sweating like a pig..”
😆
So the correct phrase should say "There is no smoke without heat"
I've always wondered how you find the relevant clips from movies and shows to illustrate your point. Can you search using keywords?
I hear a Robin!
Damn. It's been a long ass time since I have heard Robins voice. Since the last time I watched one of these videos. And before that, back when All-time Conspiracies still existed. Fuck UA-cam and their horse shit...
I don't know if you know, but Robin & crew went over to Just Interesting. They have a podcast format.
Here's the link to Just Interesting. I took part in one of their discussions ua-cam.com/channels/5ZaQUppCpHHkWwI-WymwJw.html
The park ranger's grave has also been hit by lightning. Wtf?
8:56 The moon IS blue! A very light blue, but still. If you’re talking about a Full moon, they should say that.
11:35 If you’re talking about that huge whitish orange moon, that’s due to wildfires/smoke, that’s still common. Otherwise, you’re just talking about a lunar eclipse.
I always thought "Sweating like a pig" was referring to when you cook a pig?
Just stopped in to say the duration listed on that thumbnail is in a very poor spot. It turned the "not rare" text over a blue moon into "not rape" over a microscope slide.
How ever it is coldest before dawn.
"When pigs fly."
Ah good suggestion! I wonder if that has a confused origin.
I feel like this is pretty niitpicky. I would probably not correct someone for saying any of these even if I knew better because I don't want to be "that guy."
You may not be 'that guy' but you are definitely 'that dudeguy.'
“Your sweating like a dog”
“Pigs can’t sweat” neither can echidnas
Going by the life expectancy of the moon, sun and earth that is not really that rare
Maybe its sweating like a pig because the pigs 'sweating' means bating in water or mud, so when they 'sweat' they are completely wet, just like a human 'sweating like a pig'
When vampires drink his blood, they drink stu
Hey stew you got another English phrase wrong.Bones are actually wet and our teeth are always warm.
where did you find that we have no red cones? I only found that they are actually our strongest color.
Nice haircut ! 😄
😁
In Spain you sweat like a chicken (equally illogical as to sweating like a pig). I discovered however that the most likely origin is a reference to the roasting process of a chicken. It is known that the chicken will sweat before burning. This origin could also apply to the roasting of a pig, although I haven't check.
Thanks for your comment, great input 👍
Actually, it's coldest just AFTER sunrise. Yes, the Sun is now putting down energy, but it's weak and heavily filtered.
Meanwhile, the air is still losing energy because it's transparent to the Sun's rays and the earth or water have not yet absorbed enough light to reemit it as heat, which is what warms the air.
Thank god I'm not a tall, pointy building!
What about "red as the dawn"! Is that accurate?
Using the word "debunked" is a perfect example of how words are misused and become "normal".
For generations, the word "bunk" was used to describe a lie, an exaggeration or a tall tale. Adding the prefix "de" or "debunk" something was to prove it true.
Actually the coldest time of the day is slightly after the dawn though. Let's just assume it's a clear sky and no other funny things going on metrologically, to not overcomplicate it. You could see the world loses heat to space at about a constant rate.
For it to warm up the heat put into earth needs to exceed the loss of heat. Right at dawn the sun is still too low to provide enough heat to overcome the loss, which mean the earth still cools down, al be it slower. It would rather be a 15-20 min after dawn when the earth is heating up and you have past the coldest point of the day.
Loved the video though
Pig's also pee in the mud to keep off bug's and for a sun screen.
During the winter months and I hear "It's cold as hell" I can't help but give an eye-roll. Stop and think, people.
The phrase may come from the classical work _The Divine Comedy_ by Dante Alighieri, first published in the first half of the 1300s. In the section _Inferno_ he posited nine layers of hell, with the ninth being the worst and reserved for the greatest traitors in history and those who betray their own families. It was described as an icy wasteland eternally fanned by the wings of Satan and those in it were frozen solid and unable to move. It does sound odd though today!
Only in American English can it both be 'hot as hell' and 'cold as hell'... English is such a messy language full of contradictions and 'exceptions' to rules that maybe shouldn't be rules any more at this point.
I'm never wrong, just left.
It’s always coldest before dawn how do you like that quote
I like it
Pigs can also be cooled by hosing down they will die if not cooled or mud
The pig one is because when they were nervous they were so nervous that they COULDNT sweat , thats why they say like a pig , but it lost its meaning and now people use it for when they do sweat
The lightning not striking twice is especially incorrect… as MOST lightning strikes are multiple strikes in a short period…
Request, a VIVITROL Study
Well, when they speak of lightening not striking the same spot twice, they mean in a short period of time, not forever. The tale of the guy who got struck more then once is irrelevant as it happened over years, and in different locations. Tall buildings have grounded lightening rods. This is why they get struck more than once in the same spot.
I always used " sweat like stuck hog bleeds ".
When I'm sweating, I say " I'm sweating like a pedo in a playground" or "like a whore in church" or..... well! you get the idea 😐
The expression that drives me nuts the most is "clout chasing"; it's one of many words and phrases that illiterate zoomers don't know or understand or redefine because they're so uneducated. That is NOT what "clout" means. 😠
You know. Several words have come to mean something else over time. Something one word can have several meanings.
Spinster, gay, slut, nervous, awful. Just a few words that have either evolved to have different meanings or have come to mean something new whilst also keeping its original meaning.
I imagine if you go back far enough you'll find so many examples of how language has evolved.