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Are there any other popular metaphors based on misconceptions?

• Karunamon 10y ago
  "Fire in a crowded theater" comes to mind. In reality, the judge making that comparison later rescinded it, and the guy won his case (about distributing anti-war pamphlets) anyways.
• Jach 10y ago
  http://danluu.com/dunning-kruger/ http://danluu.com/dunning-kruger/
• thaumasiotes 10y ago
  Ostriches sticking their heads in the ground. Living fossils. That prokaryotes are "primitive" life. Eskimo words for snow. "Anal" behavior. Essentially all popular metaphors are based on misconceptions, really.
  • Houshalter 10y ago
    Basically everything from this list https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_common_misconceptions https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_common_misconceptions