English is a funny and strange language

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What are some "odd" phrases we use in the English language? I'll start with a few for example purpose. 1. Tie your shoes-why not shoe laces? 2. Time to hit the hay-this means go to sleep 3. Early bird gets the worm 4. Your alarm is going off- which really means the sound is on, but we use off.. even if we were to say "turn off the alarm." 5. I bombed my quiz vs this steak is so bomb! - sounds like bomb can be good and bad, which is so weird. 6. (Makeup Reference) Let me beat your face. -it means let me do a full face of makeup on you. 7. Cakeface- to have makeup on. "I caked my face." 8. I ate it. - You were doing something then fell (usually face down on the ground type of fall) 9. Running late -but you're not actually "running" 10. Email reply: "looking forward to hearing back from you soon." You can't "hear" an email lol. 11. Then there's phrases like "I'm shook" "it's lit" which I despise so much, and find those phrases so annoying lol. 12. Cashier: "may I ring these up for you?" Like why do we say "ring" ? There's no ring involved.. are you gonna "ring" me by my ears? 13. Ring the doorbell- why not just say press the doorbell? Why do we say "ring"? Lol. 14. You drive me insane- like I don't even have my license yet, so how can I even drive anyone? Haha. 15. I fell for you/Falling for you- why would you want to fall in purpose lol. Well those are a few to start with!