If you're up for something, or down for something, it means the same thing.
If you fill in a form or fill out a form, it means the same thing.
English is fucked.
106 0 ReplyThink about filling in a form, though. Filling in a form—“to fill” is unambiguous. In/out isn’t even necessary when you think about it. “I’m going to fill a form” means the same thing too.
18 0 ReplyI feel like you're technically correct, but saying "fill a form" just sounds weird to a native English speaker.
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The alarm went off, so I turned it off.
14 0 ReplyAlso try this inflammable table with flammable chairs.
11 0 ReplyI hate this one, it confuses Dutch people from time to time, so they think “inflammable” means “fire resistant”.
Extra scary when there's only an English-language warning on this
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Don't forget you might already be in the right place and don't need to go up or down. Then you can say you're "there for something"
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I guess fat chance is said sarcastically.
60 0 ReplyI've never not heard it said sarcastically.
30 0 ReplyThere are words and phrases in English that get used sarcastically so often they lose their original meaning. There is a word for this and I swear I've seen a whole list somewhere but my google fu is weak today.
11 0 ReplyNow, I expect to be down voted.
I don't care, but I'm going to piss a lot of people off.
I say "I could care less".
That's sarcasm. It's what my nineties, heroin chic, grunge music adolescence gave me.
I could care less. It would just require that I make an effort. That's not caring less. That's caring about something.
It's like how the biggest homophobes always seem to be closeted. They care too much.
6 0 ReplyThere's a fat chance you're gonna be eating those words.
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You can make profit on and profit off
28 0 ReplyI could build on your point or build off of it.
7 0 ReplyBut if you’re hardly working, you’re not working hard.
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Alarms can go off and be turned off
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one is just said sarcastically
14 0 ReplyFun fact: awful and awesome used to be synonyms
11 0 ReplyAntiautonyms! https://people.sc.fsu.edu/~jburkardt/fun/wordplay/antiauto.html
Or contronyms. I don’t funny understand the delineation between the two.
9 0 ReplyI've always loved Mace Windu telling someone "your chances come in two sizes: slim and fat" in an old Star Wars Novell called Shatterpoint.
6 0 ReplyFat chance is a sarcastic phrase, so they don't actually have the same literal meaning
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