Because its shiny doesnt mean its awesome…
Origin guess…gold minners thinking they hit it big…only to be told its fools gold @martinhersey1
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Ha…i do the opposite…i make everything overwhelmingly large causes my woes…i never thought about it…good work we proving its spectrum affliction…they dont know ■■■■ so maybe we help them…thats a fundamental diff worth pursuing…anyone else fall into the opposite catagory…no wonder they think im doing fine everytime…i grasp at vague instead of personal…though some of my delusions make it personal…i have sz plus did…maybe im a diff part of the spectrum and diff meds should be used…im suffering on these…3 edits just for fun…
I don’t have issues with metaphores and actually like them … 
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I had been asked similar questions yes, but the sayings were in my native language, not sure if they exist in english as well.
I recall related questions for similarities and differences between two items, and had difficulties with them. For instance, what’s the similarity between an apple and a pear? I thought, that’s easy, they are both fruits. Then I was asked what the difference between them was, and I started thinking too much. For one might say, well a pear has this shape and an apple has that shape, or maybe more concise, the difference is their shape. Or: the difference is their taste. I went looking for the difference though, instead of a difference, and got in a mess. Took me a while to settle for: the species.
Another example, slightly different, would be when they asked for the similarity and difference between a hill and a valley. Similarity went okay for me, I said these are features of the landscape, or something along those lines. For the difference, I got caught up with myself again, I did not, for some reason, want to say: ‘a hill is like this, and a valley like that’ ( I suppose convex and concave would be appropriate here, but I always mix them up so have no use for them). Putting it like that, I thought at the time, is not explicitly stating where the difference consists in… it took me a while to figure out that it was shape I was after.
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What does it mean “You have your work cut out for you”?
I think it means you have some well-defined but usually heavy job to do.
But that part of it being already cut out for you always strikes me as if someone was kind and already did half of it for you
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I read an article on what are called ‘top-down’ and ‘bottom-up’ strategies of information processing, basically whether you move from the whole to the parts or the other way around, that might relate to this. The article didn’t go much further than that in schizophrenia these are screwed, but that we can manage some tasks ‘bottom up’ that are usually done ‘top-down’, it just takes us a little longer.
This might relate to language and saying as follows. In language, there seems to be what is called a principle of ‘compositionality’. Which entails something along the lines that if you know the meaning of individual words, and some rules of grammar, you can know the meaning of a whole sentence made up of these words. Pretty much a bottom up practice. For many sentences this may seem accurate, but especially some sayings are notorious for resisting it. I recall an example from a lecture, that was about ‘kicking the bucket’. If one doesn’t know the meaning of the whole sentence, perhaps loosely associable with a top-down way of going about, one may resort to using the bottom-up strategy and identify the meaning of each individual term. These are not too extraordinary in this case, many will know what to kick means, and a bucket isn’t too unfamiliar either. But this bottom-up strategy doesn’t quite get you to someone having died…
Maybe this relates our difficulties with some other sayings as well.
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People are quick to see their own flaws in others. It’s sad because seeing flaws reminds people of their own. Some individuals are so annoyed internally by their flaws that they call the other person out for them in hopes of driving them away or making them learn to control the demonstration of the indicative behaviors.
I’ve got friends who are quite similar to me who can often seem condescending and critical when I’m a confident phase.
“Whatever’s clever?” A friend once said to me, reducing all my quippy retorts to me just trying to be showy… A behavior he also demonstrates when he can.
“You’re stuck up.” He also said at one point. When I was just being confident and trying to get a convo going. I was distracting his focus and he just thought of how to shut the convo down.
Now both this guy and I have been good friends for over a decade. We’re both sort of moralistic know-it-alls but we disagree on a lot of things which keeps us from getting along like we used to.
I’m a critical person, I have streams of critical thoughts of others but I do my best to keep it in my mind until I’m in a safe place to gossip a bit. These are things I’m working on… But I’m not going to subversively try and end a conversation by hurting someone through criticism. When I got to be authoritative with people because they are crossing one of my lines I try to let them know what happened and why I got peaved and my expectations regarding respect…
Anyways… We’re all living in a glass house… No one is perfect. I like looking at my flaws and being criticized because it allows me to see how I influence things more accurately. Lets me learn to conceal or eliminate my flaws so that I might have better social viability with a broader range of folks. I also enjoy negotiation and conflict resolution…
I could start digging into the other guy at this point, but I’ll stop out of respect. Won’t say anything beyond his dickish snide statements make my head spin for hours because he’s just being confrontational with no purpose.
“If you’re going to show someone the cracks in their character, you better know how to mend them first.”
Ah and also… I don’t think it’s rude at all to just tell someone. “Look I don’t feel like talking right now.” Or “Sorry man, I don’t got time to help you with this.”
Everyone is always fighting for the soapbox…
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I’ve been asked questions like this on an intelligence test, on the WAIS test. I never had any problem with them. I think they have something to do with verbal intelligence. I was asked, “what does “a stitch in time saves nine” mean?” I said it meant that if you do something when it first needs to be done you can save yourself a lot of trouble over the situation later.
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I think it’s more to do with assessing abstract and concrete thinking .
so much has been said here I can’t keep up. Back to the original statement - who would live in a glass house and why would you need a statement for it. I have heard it before and it always confused me and I am paranoid sz.
It’s just common sense - don’t throw rocks if you live in a glass house. Probably someone came up with it when their kids were outside throwing rocks and now everyone has made a big deal out of it. Some old geezer laughing his ass off cuz now everyone thinks it meant more than it did. But it got the boys to stop throwing rocks.
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Wow, it was really awesome to come across this! So that’s why my most recent psychiatrist asked if I liked proverbs and then threw a few around to see if I could get the meanings…
I think I know what “Don’t look a gift horse in the mouth” means. If you are looking at the horse’s teeth, you might find the horse is no good. But, you have the whole horse there, not just his mouth. So, if you find some money, or someone makes a mistake with you with money and you stand to gain from it, I would not say anything. You have the gift horse there in the form of the money. The mistake on your behalf is the bad teeth.
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Because if you throw stones at other people’s houses, and you live in a glass house, other people will throw stones at YOUR house. I can’t generalize about this statement.
I think it means you’ve got a big job ahead of you.
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You can see if a horse is good or not by his theet, so if the horse was free there’s no need to get upset if he’s no good. We have a Portuguese saying that is similar and that’s what I take from it: if you didn’t work for it, got it, and it isn’t good, no need to feel bad about it sucking. And I mean, there’s always something you can do even with a bad horse!
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I always got stuck on the gift horse I guess - what is that and if they are giving it as a gift why didn’t they just say that. I thought it was maybe a ceramic horse and it wouldn’t have teeth anyways. I hate proverbs.
Yeah I guess I just remember my brother throwing rocks around the house at my gpa’s as kids and my grandpa would always tell him to stop cuz he could break a window so that what I thought about that.
I was asked a week ago and said know your limitations… I think they kinda relate…
This is the first time I know it.