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Adage: Be careful what you wish for because you just might get it
Wow! This one is quite long. It may be long, but the meaning is pretty easy, actually.
Think about it this way: You watch a movie that has a cute chimpanzee in it.
You tell your friend that it would be cool to have a chimpanzee.
The next day your friend gives you a chimpanzee as a present.
Huh?
Now, what do you do?
Be careful what you wish for because you just might get it means you think you want something, but when you get it, you realize you were wrong.
See, be careful what you wish for because you just might get it.
I said on Thursday that I would have all of the idioms this week related to Brexit, and today’s adage is perfect for the referendum result.
For a long time, millions of British people have wished to leave the European Union.
Now the future is up in the air (hmm).
Be careful what you wish for because you just might get it.
Flesch-Kincaid Readability Test
This post is understandable by someone with at least a 6th-grade education (age 11).
On the Flesch-Kincaid reading-ease test, this post scores 83.
The easier a passage is to read, the higher the score on a scale of 0 – 100.