I was thinking about the phrase ‘The pot calling the kettle black’. It comes from a time where cooking was done over open fires and cookware would become visibly ashy. (Fun fact: It first appears and was perhaps coined by Cervantes in Don Quixote!)
What are some other idioms that have lost their literal connection to time? What would be a good modern replacement?
Has to be trolling because they are all wrong.
Under the weather is right.
And get off your high horse is right too. So the whole thing was a weird comment, leaving the readers uncertain if OP was trolling or just…yeah mostly trolling.
They probably messed that one up. I wonder how they meant to mangle it?