Marie Brennan"Pull yourself up by your bootstraps!"
the entire point of that idiom was that you *can't*, it's straight-up impossible
"Just one bad apple"
. . . spoils the rest of the barrel; it's the *opposite* of an isolated problem
Any other idioms we've gotten completely backwards?
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