We've all been saying them, and we've all been wrong!
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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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