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Clear as mud
My English teacher, yes my the woman who taught me Higher English and who I assume has some kind of degree in English Literature, used to use the phrase "clear as mud" a lot. Now at the time this was probably the first time I had heard it and to be honest not exactly a hard saying to understand, unless of course your English teacher uses it in the wrong context. We were studying poems by Phillip Larkin and were finding it rather challenging to read behind the words and understand the meaning of some of them. She used to say, after explaining what he meant by certain things, "now don't worry class as you get closer to the exams all this revision will be worth it and it will become clear as mud". Now I'm pretty sure she wasn't being sarcastic therefore I could never understand why anyone would think mud was clear. Having never really thought more about it until the other day I suddenly realised that she was in fact talking nonsense and when someone pointed out what the correct use of the saying was. It's not like I had been thinking about this constantly since Higher english and it had kept me up at night but it's only when someone pointed it out I thought "ah ok". I know this seems incredibly trivial but it made me question my intelligence but now makes my B in Higher English seem way more of an accomplishment considering the teaching I had to overcome. So really well done me. 20:36

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