Here's the first one "I love slide shows!" https://www.msn.com/en-us/lifestyle/smart-living/the-40-lies-everyone-tells-on-a-daily-basis/ss-BBIAhBE?ocid=spartandhp#image=1
You know the whole thing is horse pucky when the title states "The 40 Lies Everyone Tells on a Daily Basis" but there is only 35 slides. The idea that "The 40 Lies Everyone Tells on a Daily Basis", all 7.6 billion of us does all 40 (or 35?) of these things is manure. Even more dung added when reading them, one realizes "The 40 Lies Everyone Tells on a Daily Basis" really means sometimes within a few months, or years How often someone shows you baby pictures? Do you comment every single day on someones hair? Do you even have subway where you live, or drive a car and it was nuts (make up your mind, drive or subway)? And, so on.
Maybe the title should have been "Most Frequently Told Lies," but in that case #1 would have to be "I love you."
Looks like this is a case of amphiboly. The same sentence might be taken to mean 1) that everyone tells every one of those lies every day, or 2) that everyone tells at least one of those lies every day, or even 3) that "everyone" is used as a collective noun referring to all people, and therefore, means that each of these lies are said at least once each day by someone, somewhere. In this case, however, I think it's just a hyperbolic colloquialism (sorry, here I go speaking like an alien again ). Everyone eats cake. Nobody has a landline anymore. Everyone hates the Patriots. Nobody takes Miley Cyus seriously as an actor. Obviously, not EVERYBODY and not NOBODY, but to say so is used emphatically, not literally.
The least-preferred answer: "Well, everybody says that..." Despite MC's sage remarks on "hyperbolic colloquialism," I fear there may be times when some folks DO mean everybody.
