Just for fun, let’s take a look at some of these idioms that do not necessarily
hold true these days.

1. Life begins at forty: Well, in our world today, people seem to be so much in a hurry to be made,such that even by their 20s,they are already money conscious,and thinking of how they
will come into great wealth to be able to build mansions and buy
exotic cars, so age forty is seen as kind of late these days.

2. You can’t teach an old dog new tricks: This is quite not true these days as we have seen quite a number of people who are advanced in age going back to school to acquire degrees or even learn a new skill in their later years. We see old men and women learning how to use the computer, internet, social media and sophisticated gadgets like smart
phones.

3. Cut your coat according to your size: This is so old school because it has since been modified to read, "cut your coat according to
your cloth", this is no thanks to the economic situation which has
reduced the way many people spend money on things,as people don’t necessarily do things based on how they actually want it done but based on the size of their pockets.

4. You cannot eat your cake and have it: Big lie! You can bake more than one cake now, lols. This literally translates to, you shouldn’t
want more than you deserve or can handle, but new thinking is that you
can have the best of both worlds i.e. you can enjoy the advantages in
the good and bad of something. 

 5. Experience is the best teacher: Oh really? Must one always have to experience situations in order to learn from them? You can achieve things faster by learning from other
people's mistakes and successes, rather than waiting to experience
things first hand.

6. Opportunity seldom knocks twice: With more knowledge at our disposal, the new thinking is that you can make or create opportunities rather than waiting for opportunity to present itself. You can create your own luck by doing the right things and creating
the right environment/connections

7. Marriages are made in heaven: It’s quite true you don’t know who you will end up marrying, the reason behind this idiom, but you at least have a fair idea of the kind of spouse you want to spend the rest of your life with. Have you thought to ask that if truly marriages are indeed made in heaven, then why do we have divorces?

8. Barking dogs hardly bite: Please, beware of a barking dog because you can’t tell if hunger dey worry am or whether it might be suffering from rabies o!
Seriously, you can’t tell if someone making a threat would actually
carry it out, better be safe than sorry, because if appearance doesn’t favour
him, he might as well resort to diabolical means.

9. Every man is held innocent until he has been proven guilty: Seriously,how many of us bear this in mind before forming our conclusions on a matter? Do we give people the
benefit of the doubt to prove their case when they are being accused
of something they may or may not have done?

10. You can add yours

Well, basically, number three did not change; it has always been 'Cut your coat according to your cloth', it's only the ignorant who say it otherwise.

And number four is actually 'You can't have your cake and eat it', a strange idiom that has always confused me.

11. The youths are leaders of tomorrow.

A patience dog eat the fatest bone. Whereas a patient dog eat no bone.

Experience is still and will always be the best teacher. No mater hiw you see other people going through stuff, you can never realy know how it hurts or pleases the person until you experience it yourself. No mater howmany kids your friend has you cant experience the joy and stress of pregnancy and child birth etc until it happens to you. You may know that lacking money or love is bad from seeing others go through it, but you will underatand it better if it hits you directly. Etc.

You also cant eat your cake(s) and have it. If you like bake 1000000 after you chop am, that is all. Unless you bake another set. But that one you baked and eat, its gone you cant have it back.

lol

If u can't Beat Them, join them. - These days its if u can't beat them, arrange to have them beaten!

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