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Except that in this case, it isn’t.
Oh dear, goodness mee, I didn't realise this. I was under the impression that it had something to do with ties and knots. And I thought I was above average in English: I never use subtitles when watching English or Murican films/tvseries/whathaveyou anymore and I am fairly fluent in writing. In Sweden we always subtitle all foreign language shows so most Swedes are surprisingly good at English because our ears get used to it from an early age. I know in other parts of the world they don't have this luxury.
Which I think only reinforces your point that it could cause even an advanced English speaker to hesitate if they weren’t familiar with the phrase!
Yep, I totally made this point obvious. :-)