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3Fangs In reply to TheJenjineer [2017-06-10 15:51:46 +0000 UTC]

Eyes...the window to the soul.
Actually, the reflection was the main reason I took a close-up of my eyes--I was fooling around with the video camera and I noticed the light through the window was making my eyes look weird; plus I was trying to get a picture of the dark flecks in my left eye. Do you know if irises develop flecks or are they ALWAYS there? I hadn't noticed I had dark specks in my eyes until a couple years ago, and it was a bit surreal. (Like looking into a stranger's eyes.) It's like when you say you know something as well as the back of your hand, and then you look at your hand and you realize there's all these freckles on your knuckles you don't recall there and suddenly you have to wonder how well you know ANYTHING anymore. O____O

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TheJenjineer In reply to 3Fangs [2017-06-11 15:24:11 +0000 UTC]

 I don't know for sure whether irises can change, but I don't think so. You're right in saying we need a new expression. I mean, how often do we stare at the back of our hands anyway? And how do you even judge how accurately a person remembers their hands? I say we change it to an expression that's more quantifiable like "like I know the birthdays of my children" or "like I know my 2 times table". 

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3Fangs In reply to TheJenjineer [2017-06-12 11:21:24 +0000 UTC]

Yessss! Either of those makes so much more sense.
Unless...what if the point of the original expression was to imply that it wasn't something known very WELL?
What if, over the years, we ended up getting the meaning mixed up?
And saying that we know something as well as the back of our hand was supposed to imply that we didn't know it very well at all?

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TheJenjineer In reply to 3Fangs [2017-06-12 19:12:27 +0000 UTC]

dum dum daaaaaa
I tried googling and could not find any answer. They just say it's an old English expression. 

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3Fangs In reply to TheJenjineer [2017-06-14 23:26:52 +0000 UTC]

And we know how much sense many of those Old English Expressions made.

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