What word or phrase did you misunderstand as a child or even as an adult?
We've done this one before, but I was reminded this morning by Shaker Mary Moylan that, when I was a kid, I thought the idiom "going to hell in a hand basket" was "going to hell in a ham basket." I wondered for years WTF a ham basket was.
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