Once I asked a nurse why they say “just a little scratch” for an injection, bc it doesn’t feel like a scratch. A beat, and then she said quietly “we’re trained not to say just a little prick.”

When I worked at Royal Mail as part of the induction they showed us the section of the sorting office dedicated to working out vague/badly addressed post. One letter was addressed as a set of cryptic crossword clues and got to its destination.