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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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SOURCES:
https://www.nature.com/articles/207415a0
http://www.bbc.co.uk/earth/story/20150924-the-truth-about-pigs
https://www.palaeobarn.com/sites/default/files/publications/127.pdf
https://usa.arcelormittal.com/news-and-media/our-stories/2020/mar/pig-iron
https://digital.sciencehistory.org/catalog?search_field=all_fields&q=PIG+IRON&range%5Byear_facet_isim%5D%5Bbegin%5D=&range%5Byear_facet_isim%5D%5Bend%5D=
100 Science Myths Explored ( (No. 33)
https://www.livescience.com/55986-are-bats-really-blind.html
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2712075/
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0006390
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/daytime-bats-help-explain-nocturnal-evolution
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/06/070615093131.htm
Do Bats Drink Blood? By Barbara A. Schmidt-French & Carol A Butler - https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=wrKTDgyT3PMC&redir_esc=y&hl=en
https://www.wtamu.edu/~cbaird/sq/2013/04/09/why-are-bats-blind/
https://www.wildlifeonline.me.uk/questions/answer/is-the-expression-blind-as-a-bat-justified
https://pubs.er.usgs.gov/publication/70157509
https://iris.ca/en/blog-post-detail/when-should-i-protect-my-eyes-from-uv-rays-
https://azretina.sites.arizona.edu/node/381
https://archives.evergreen.edu/webpages/curricular/2011-2012/m2o1112/web/nocturnal_mammals.html
https://www.acuvue.com/why-contact-lenses/uv-blocking-benefits
https://www.opticianonline.net/features/protect-eyes-uv-light
https://www.newscientist.com/lastword/mg24732931-300-when-do-i-get-the-most-uv-light/
https://www.rmg.co.uk/stories/blog/when-dawn
https://www.timeanddate.com/astronomy/different-types-twilight.html
https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Diagram-showing-the-apparent-path-of-the-Sun-as-seen-by-an-observer-at-a-fixed-position_fig2_304581792
https://literarydevices.net/darkest-hour-is-just-before-the-dawn/
https://earthsky.org/astronomy-essentials/everything-you-need-to-know-zodiacal-light-or-false-dusk/
https://davidson.weizmann.ac.il/en/online/askexpert/sky-darkest-just-dawn
https://writingexplained.org/idiom-dictionary/its-always-darkest-before-the-dawn
https://www.noaa.gov/stories/5-striking-facts-versus-myths-about-lightning-you-should-know
https://www.britannica.com/story/can-lightning-strike-the-same-place-twice
https://www.wtamu.edu/~cbaird/sq/2012/12/15/why-cant-lightning-strike-the-same-place-twice/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Heywood
https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=twUtAgAAQBAJ&pg=PT554&lpg=PT554&dq=There+is+no+fyre+without+smoke+heywood&source=bl&ots=YpCDUxBovM&sig=ACfU3U1v3l-