When you were a child, did the adults around you have any phrases you considered ridiculous?

Do you still feel the same way?

My example is “The world isn’t fair!” in response to my complaints about injustice. I hope I never say that to a child. I didn’t have the words to argue at the time, but I always felt deeply frustrated. I knew the world isn’t fair. I had just experienced it! I was trying to fix it in a small way, which is all anyone can do.

Furthermore, the adults in my life certainly insisted on fairness at other times. I wonder what they had said if, in response to being told to share for the sake of fairness, I had simply said “The world isn’t fair!”

Do you remember situations like that?