We were talking about sayings in my conversation class, and something one of them said reminded me of that quip from the Bible, “It rains on the just and the unjust alike.”
I asked them what they thought it meant, one of them responded, “It means that good things happen to both good and bad people.” Huh? How’d he get the idea of good things out of that? Oh right… Here, rain is considered a good thing, it didn’t occur to them that it meant something bad. It really is a different world…