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Yeah, that one is also infuriating to hear people misuse.
The entire point is not that its a small problem, its that its a big problem.
Along the same lines:
"Pull yourself up by your bootstraps."
This was originally written as an obviously physically impossible absurdity, a modern equivalent would be the 'plug the power strip into itself for infinite energy' memes.
Yet it is instead used to mean ... its time for you to do a lot of hard work, and then you'll be in a better place.
When it instead was originally used to describe an extremely dire situation that cannot be solved by doing ... the sentence above.
still means the same thing, just used incorrectly by dishonest and truly wretched people.