COMMON SAYINGS TRANSLATED INTO SCIENTIFICALLY CORRECT STATEMENTS
COMMON: Hit the ground running.
SCIENTIFIC: Conserve momentum.
COMMON: My gut was telling me.
SCIENTIFIC: My colon speaks.
COMMON: If I had a nickel for every…
SCIENTIFIC: x times 5cents, where x equals…
COMMON: Don’t throw the baby out with the bathwater
SCIENTIFIC: Avoid wet baby head trauma.
COMMON: Go the whole 9 yards.
SCIENTIFIC: Displace by 8.2296 meters.
COMMON: You are in way over your head.
SCIENTIFIC: Anatomically speaking, you are likely upside down.
COMMON: You spilled the beans.
SCIENTIFIC: Entropy went up.
COMMON: A little bird told me…
SCIENTIFIC: Whilst under the influence of psychedelic hallucinogens…
COMMON: Everything but the kitchen sink.
SCIENTIFIC: Almost, but not quite, the entire universe.
COMMON: Beating a dead horse.
SCIENTIFIC: Technically still dead.
COMMON: Break the ice.
SCIENTIFIC: Break the ice.