Malapropism!
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Feb 2017
5:33pm, 3 Feb 2017
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Sharkie
Not quite a Malapropism perhaps but I loved the one D2 reported an acquaintance saying. They apparently had a friend who was, 'a bit OCDC, you know, belt and braces...'
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Feb 2017
6:02pm, 3 Feb 2017
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Joopsy
My boss in my last job told me that we needed to lose some great wars to win a battle. He also told me us all on a conference call that our current system was too clumbersome. |
Feb 2017
6:37pm, 3 Feb 2017
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Fragile Do Not Bend
I wanted to throttle an ex-colleague who always said pacific when she meant specific.
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Apr 2017
3:39pm, 11 Apr 2017
5,043 posts
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Markymarkmark
"In one foul swoop"..... or maybe "one fowl swoop". Both are annoying! |
Apr 2017
3:58pm, 11 Apr 2017
737 posts
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Captain Malcolm Reynolds
If you're getting Freudian perhaps it should be a malapriapism.
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Apr 2017
4:30pm, 11 Apr 2017
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larkim
The dad of an athlete my son was competing against told me his son had been experiencing some issues with his hercules tendon, but it was OK now.
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Apr 2017
4:31pm, 11 Apr 2017
846 posts
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lise
I had one guy at work who said 'a company has went burst ' instead of bust.....used to wind me up
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Apr 2017
4:32pm, 11 Apr 2017
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larkim
And my dearly departed grandmother boasted to her friends after my mum and dad got married that they were having durex laid all over the ground floor. As a staunchly catholic woman, that wasn't a boast she really would have been proud of in the late 60s. (Duralay was apparently the stuff being used). |
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Apr 2017
4:50pm, 11 Apr 2017
1,806 posts
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larkim
My family's second favourite was when my sister returned home from school in the 1970s announcing that they'd been praying for the Iranian ostriches.
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Apr 2017
5:06pm, 11 Apr 2017
12,858 posts
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HowFar?
My mum, who was exasperated at the lack of progress being made on some task or other, announced that the problem was that there were ' too many cooks and not enough Indians.' My colleague constantly encourages children in her class to make their art work sparkly by sticking on some sequences. |
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