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Misuse of phrases or cliches

  • 07-09-2009 4:03pm
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 280 ✭✭


    Maybe this has been done before but I've heard some very funny ones.

    My uncle worked with a man who used to say "don't mis-underestimate yourself" and the traffic was always "chop the block" ha.

    Then there are common ones that can be a little bit annoying like people saying "for all intensive purposes" instead of "intents and purposes".

    Any good examples? :)
    The funniest one gets a prize of....King of this thread.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,698 ✭✭✭✭fullstop


    My ex used to say 'this place is like a pig style' instead of pig sty, among many others that I can't think of. She was a bit dim.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,676 ✭✭✭dr gonzo


    I suppose the most common one would be "Play it by year" instead of play it by ear. Not at all humourous but if i think of any more ill come back to you.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 152 ✭✭masherella88


    my friend while talking about a bit of a dilemma informed me that it was one of those "catch 20/20" situations...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,514 ✭✭✭raindog.promo


    I used to think the eye & ear hospital was a hospital with special doctors similar to engineers that were called "ioneers"

    I lived with this sweet ignorance for years.


  • Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 35,946 Mod ✭✭✭✭dr.bollocko


    I knew this thread wouldn't work.
    I Feckin' toad a so.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,831 ✭✭✭genericguy


    "that's a pigment of your imagination"


    ...shut up genericgal.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,124 ✭✭✭✭My name is URL


    The way people use the word yisser, I mean wtf

    Get yisser coats, do yisser homework

    not really a phrase though


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,676 ✭✭✭dr gonzo


    The way people use the word yisser, I mean wtf

    Get yisser coats, do yisser homework

    not really a phrase though

    Yeh that ones a bit of a conundrum alright.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 280 ✭✭NedTermo


    People who still say "chimley" instead of "chimney" when they are adults concerns me.


  • Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 35,946 Mod ✭✭✭✭dr.bollocko


    NedTermo wrote: »
    People who still say "chimley" instead of "chimney" when they are adults concerns me.

    Ppl like that make me see red. I want to put them in hostipal.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 58,456 ✭✭✭✭ibarelycare


    Nip it in the butt


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 49 lilywhites1982


    I know this guy that corrects peoples misuse of sayings, SO ANNOYING!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 152 ✭✭masherella88


    sangwitch....grrrrrr


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 108 ✭✭cjbh


    I always thought 'fair dues' was 'fair juice'

    A radio DJ thought it was 'no holes barred' instead of 'no holds barred'...he was doing a show on pornography and said, 'it's literally no holes barred' :rolleyes:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 313 ✭✭auditek923


    i have heard people say mokatrol instead of remote control


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,502 ✭✭✭Fuzzy_Dunlop




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 280 ✭✭NedTermo


    cjbh wrote: »
    I always thought 'fair dues' was 'fair juice'

    A radio DJ thought it was 'no holes barred' instead of 'no holds barred'...he was doing a show on pornography and said, 'it's literally no holes barred' :rolleyes:

    Quality.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 280 ✭✭NedTermo


    playa3 wrote: »

    Ricky is a legend for them, well played.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 649 ✭✭✭Jeebus


    My friends all say "sleep on", when the phrase is feckin' "sleep in".

    Sleep on makes no fecking sense !


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 280 ✭✭NedTermo


    Jeebus wrote: »
    My friends all say "sleep on", when the phrase is feckin' "sleep in".

    Sleep on makes no fecking sense !

    When I was in school in Drogheda there was a book to sign if you were late, your name, the time and the reason for lateness.
    Everytime I looked at the book it read like this

    09.26 Slep it
    09.50 I slep it
    09.59 Slep in

    But if you asked someone from Drogheda its just one word, "sleppit".

    :)


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  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,290 Mod ✭✭✭✭Wibbs


    cjbh wrote: »
    I always thought 'fair dues' was 'fair juice'
    :mad:arrrrgh!:D

    Rejoice in the awareness of feeling stupid, for that’s how you end up learning new things. If you’re not aware you’re stupid, you probably are.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,257 ✭✭✭Love2love


    cjbh wrote: »
    I always thought 'fair dues' was 'fair juice'

    A radio DJ thought it was 'no holes barred' instead of 'no holds barred'...he was doing a show on pornography and said, 'it's literally no holes barred' :rolleyes:

    I hate when people say it "literally rained cats and dogs" - no it didn't. There is no cats or dogs falling from the sky! It was just raining - normal rain! Literally is such an overused word and most of the time it's used incorrectly


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,600 ✭✭✭00112984


    My dad is a legend with these.

    He says "quite reversal" instead of "vice versa" and "flustrated" as a mix of "flustered/frustrated".


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 280 ✭✭NedTermo


    00112984 wrote: »
    My dad is a legend with these.

    He says "quite reversal" instead of "vice versa" and "flustrated" as a mix of "flustered/frustrated".

    Love it.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 385 ✭✭JayeL


    Who made you judge judy and executioner? Also "cimena".

    I'm also not sure what to make of the phrase "please don't hesitate to contact me". Shouldn't it be "please don't hesitate in contacting me"?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,556 ✭✭✭Nolanger


    Damp squid!


  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,290 Mod ✭✭✭✭Wibbs


    00112984 wrote: »
    My dad is a legend with these.

    He says "quite reversal" instead of "vice versa" and "flustrated" as a mix of "flustered/frustrated".
    I like flustrated.:D Kudos to your da.

    Rejoice in the awareness of feeling stupid, for that’s how you end up learning new things. If you’re not aware you’re stupid, you probably are.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 45,433 ✭✭✭✭thomond2006


    A Lunster supporter, such a stupid phrase.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,348 ✭✭✭KTRIC


    I'm finding this all very cromulant to be honest. It certainly isn't embiggening any of the posters on this thread.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,842 ✭✭✭Micilin Muc


    It's ironic how the title of this thread doesn't match the content of the OP's first post or anybody's subsequent posts. I believe the title of the thread should be 'Malapropisms'.

    To misuse a phrase or cliché would be to use it in the wrong context. What everybody is describing here are malapropisms.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 45,433 ✭✭✭✭thomond2006


    I've heard "Indian Summer" so much when it's raining.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 29,130 ✭✭✭✭Karl Hungus


    Love2love wrote: »
    I hate when people say it "literally rained cats and dogs" - no it didn't. There is no cats or dogs falling from the sky! It was just raining - normal rain! Literally is such an overused word and most of the time it's used incorrectly

    Argh, 'literally' does my head in, literally. :mad:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,215 ✭✭✭galah


    yer one on "Come dine with me" last night said "that's a different cattle of sheep".

    so funny.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 427 ✭✭Keogg


    galah wrote: »
    yer one on "Come dine with me" last night said "that's a different cattle of sheep".

    so funny.
    there... there is SO many things wrong with that statement *keels over*:pac:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,842 ✭✭✭Micilin Muc


    galah wrote: »
    yer one on "Come dine with me" last night said "that's a different cattle of sheep".

    That's a malapropism, not misuse of a phrase or cliché!


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 392 ✭✭TirNaNog.


    Ppl like that make me see red. I want to put them in hostipal.

    You could push them off the roof when they are cleaning the chimley and put them in hosPital!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 933 ✭✭✭hal9000


    sympathetic oil


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 392 ✭✭TirNaNog.


    But member you will be in trouble.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,513 ✭✭✭Sleipnir


    'Vi-sa versa' instead of 'vice versa'


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,568 ✭✭✭DublinWriter


    "It's all downhill from here"

    ...now to me, that's a good thing!


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 392 ✭✭TirNaNog.


    "It's all downhill from here"

    ...now to me, that's a good thing!

    choke on some crips


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,842 ✭✭✭Micilin Muc


    Sleipnir wrote: »
    'Vi-sa versa' instead of 'vice versa'

    This is another malapropism, not misuse of a phrase or cliché!!

    Here's the definition:
    1. an act or habit of misusing words ridiculously, esp. by the confusion of words that are similar in sound. 2. an instance of this, as in “Lead the way and we'll precede.”


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 649 ✭✭✭Jeebus




    This is another malapropism, not misuse of a phrase or cliché!!

    Here's the definition:



    I could care less, tbh.


    Oooooooohhhhh see what I did there ? I hate when people say that. Makes no sense. If you could care less, then you care...right ?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,438 ✭✭✭✭El Guapo!


    I used to think the eye & ear hospital was a hospital with special doctors similar to engineers that were called "ioneers"

    I lived with this sweet ignorance for years.
    My sister thought this too! She thought it was just a happy coincidence that they look after your eyes and ears!! :rolleyes:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 392 ✭✭TirNaNog.


    I always sometimes go to mcdonalds once a week.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 908 ✭✭✭Whiskey Devil


    Jeebus wrote: »
    I could care less, tbh.


    Oooooooohhhhh see what I did there ? I hate when people say that. Makes no sense. If you couldn't care less, then you care...right ?

    The Americans adapted and changed it to I could care less. :confused:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 342 ✭✭Dunder Mifflin


    Jeebus wrote: »
    I could care less, tbh.


    Oooooooohhhhh see what I did there ? I hate when people say that. Makes no sense. If you could care less, then you care...right ?
    This is by far the single worst phrase currently in use in the entire world

    edit: ever


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,513 ✭✭✭Sleipnir




    This is another malapropism, not misuse of a phrase or cliché!!

    Here's the definition:



    Ah I know it's not exactly in the spirit of the thread. Just bugs the hell out of me.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 533 ✭✭✭Claregirl


    Don't upset the apple tart really, really, bugs me!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 38 base individual


    My brother once said "beating around the bandwagon". He meant to say "beating about the bush" but confused it with "jumping on the bandwagon"


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