The Actual Meanings Behind The 28 Commonly Used Phrases

In the English language, what you say, doesn’t always mean what you want to say. There are common phrases that look rather mundane when taken at face value—but if you scrape beneath the exterior, you might discover something else completely.

HipDict is a ‘crowdsourced dictionary’ that lets anybody submit a definition for a common word or phrase. Most are happy but some are tongue-in-cheek and searing with some hard truths.