Expressions people get wrong
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People still mistake light-years as being a unit of time.2
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JohnfromNorfolk said:
Bloke at work was always using the expression he or she "Turned round and said----".
I wondered if everyone he knew faced away from him before turning round to speak.
But then he was an obnoxious twat.
Or should that be an obnouxshas twat!!
you not read Charlie & the Chocolate factory then ??
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Is he speaking about talking to multiple people? Maybe he accepts that many people avert their glaze when talking to one another if they are self conscious... Or maybe his friends were spinning round like you probably did as kids.JohnfromNorfolk said:Bloke at work was always using the expression he or she "Turned round and said----".
Weee:
Maybe it was just a turn of phrase.
Would it be better if he said something along these lines:
"he turned his head to look at me and said..."0 -
For some reason Americans refer to a detailed plan as one that is done “bottoms up”. WHY? And why do I always have to giggle like a schoolboy?0
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High level - when people actually mean more details.
Low level - when people actually mean fewer details.0 -
This thread is made for my wife as she always gets little sayings round the wrong way. One of her classics is "a bear with a sore thumb"3
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Does the Pope shit in the woods?
Of course he dont, I bet he's never been to the woods in his life.
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All that glitters is not gold.0
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If he did he might meet a bear with a sore thumb.man_at_milletts said:Does the Pope shit in the woods?
Of course he dont, I bet he's never been to the woods in his life.0 -
The best one of these, of all time, is still the one that popped up on Netaddicks where someone thought that the saying 'the pot calling the kettle black was, in fact, 'popcorn kettle black'.
Still wonder to this day whether they post here - is they do, they've kept it really quiet cos I've already mentioned it more than once.5 -
A South African bloke I knew used to try to remember phrases he’d heard but nearly always got them wrong.
One of his best being “like the cat that spilt the milk”.2 -
That's correct isn't it?ShootersHillGuru said:All that glitters is not gold.
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A delegate gave a presentation on one of my courses with reference to "the nitty kritty details "
But the thing that drives me mad is "try and " rather than 'try to '1 -
'Mind' of useless information and pacifically instead of specifically for me0
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'Laters' is far worse.Starinnaddick said:See you laters
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Was his name Bob Dylan?North Lower Neil said:Used to work with a guy who would say guitar instead of catarr.
"I can't come in today, I've got a sore throat and guitar."
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Illegible instead of ineligible.
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It should be "All that glisters is not gold " but the glitters version seems to be generally accepted nowDazzler21 said:
That's correct isn't it?ShootersHillGuru said:All that glitters is not gold.
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I’m always underwhelmed when someone (usually a politician) claims to have made a quantum leap forward – after all, a quantum is the SMALLEST amount of something (such as energy) which can exist in a given situation in physics!3
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When every Charlton supporter knows the true meaning...Fiiish said:People still mistake light-years as being a unit of time.
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"It's the ship that did the Kessel run in twelve parsecs."Fiiish said:People still mistake light-years as being a unit of time.
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The previous one may have done on a Hitler Youth training camp.man_at_milletts said:Does the Pope shit in the woods?
Of course he dont, I bet he's never been to the woods in his life.
I have no problem with "Does the Pope shit in the woods?", nor with "Is the bear a Catholic?" as it's obviously mixing two clichés for "comic" effect.6 -
Starinnaddick said:
It should be "All that glisters is not gold " but the glitters version seems to be generally accepted nowDazzler21 said:
That's correct isn't it?ShootersHillGuru said:All that glitters is not gold.
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.
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'Sensor checked' used by 3 people at work and spreading.0
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