There are so many weird phrases used in English, particularly in the UK - noticed a couple of instances where they were used ambiguously or incorrectly recently.
1. A colleague who said that some information was "under our radar", where they should have said "on our radar", the opposite meaning.
2. Someone on a podcast who said "out the box" (which I understood as something like "fresh out of the box", how you might refer to a pair of trainers), where with context it was clear they meant to say "outside the box", as in "thinking outside the box" - a completely different meaning.
Graham Dunning
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