Years ago I had this proper dozy lady at work, always getting sayings wrong. My favourite two were
Happy as a sandbag
Bald as a Badger.
You can't be referring to me as I know it should be 'happy as a sand boy'. However the phrase 'bald as a badger' has been used now and again in the Orchard family!
Sure this has been mentioned before but heard it used twice last week: St Pancreas instead of St Pancras. OK Pancras is a pretty unusual name but ......
Not exactly an expression but the man on the tannoy at London Bridge station just said "thanks very much for your corporation" instead of cooperation and it for me thinking about the amount of times I hear similar errors day to day.
Expressions one bloke continually gets wrong: "De cloob is for sale" - liar liar pants on fire "The price has been agreed with the party" - means I've told him my price, he's now gone away
Nothing beats the poster on Netaddicks back in the day who said 'popcorn kettle black' because that's what he thought 'pot calling the kettle black' was... 😂😂😂
Reminds me of this exchange on a train full of British holidaymakers travelling through Italy many years ago. Spotty youth looking out of train window: "That's what we've been eating all week" Middle-aged man: "What, barley?" Youth: "Nah, it's Pascetti"
"The exception proves the rule" doesn't actually mean shit happens all the time. It originally meant a rule is perfected by ensuring it covers or excludes exceptional cases rather than the obvious ones. Bit obtuse and doubt anyone would ever use it as intended except if you were telling the FA how to sort out the handball rule..
It should be "All that glisters is not gold " but the glitters version seems to be generally accepted now
Glisters is not in common usage these days so glitters is probably more understandable. You could always go back to Chaucer's Hyt is not al golde that glareth which predates Shakespeare's line.
Are you sure that wasn't Sir Alf Ramsey when he was trying not to sound common?
The i before e rule can be helpful, apart from when ... your feisty foreign neighbour Keith leisurely receives eight counterfeit beige sleighs from caffeinated atheist weightlifters. Weird.
The i before e rule can be helpful, apart from when ... your feisty foreign neighbour Keith leisurely receives eight counterfeit beige sleighs from caffeinated atheist weightlifters. Weird.
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Sure this has been mentioned before but heard it used twice last week: St Pancreas instead of St Pancras. OK Pancras is a pretty unusual name but ......
Never seen a coot either, as it happens.
Don't rock the boot.
"De cloob is for sale" - liar liar pants on fire
"The price has been agreed with the party" - means I've told him my price, he's now gone away
"You should get down on your hands and knees and give thanks".
Spotty youth looking out of train window: "That's what we've been eating all week"
Middle-aged man: "What, barley?"
Youth: "Nah, it's Pascetti"