Misuse of phrases or cliches

standclear · 07-09-2009 08:12PM

..and gis a couple packages of crips please..
and my mother advising my newly pregnant sister to take 'frolic acid'...

Namlub · 07-09-2009 08:19PM

"Hindsight is 50:50" No, that would be 20:20...

Jet Black · 07-09-2009 08:21PM

Bedato instead of potato. wtf?

Or i alway's thought it was ready, cadet, go. (ready set go)

Gran Hermano · 07-09-2009 08:32PM

Latchy wrote: »

Two I find amusing ie, '' To be honest '' and '' Bobs your uncle '' .Like why wouldn't you be honest ? :pac:

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I'd rather someone was honest as opposed to being Frank.

magconn · 07-09-2009 08:39PM

what about "tilted windows" instead of "tinted windows"....
Zeema for eczema
ARGOTS instead of Argos
NavCam for SatNav

aaargh !

Namlub · 07-09-2009 08:41PM

magconn wrote: »

what about "tilted windows" instead of "tinted windows"....
Zeema for eczema
ARGOTS instead of Argos
NavCam for SatNav

aaargh !

People say those things?

magconn · 07-09-2009 08:44PM

Namlub wrote: »

People say those things?

oh yeah...repeatedly....drives me insane..

Sir Molle · 07-09-2009 08:47PM

Is the threat title ironic or something?

NedTermo · 07-09-2009 09:21PM

Micilin Muc wrote: »

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.

Kiss my malapropism, its grand.

Donny5 · 07-09-2009 10:01PM

A friend of mine held a conviction that could not be disabused, which was that familiarity breeds content, instead of contempt. Even the grammar is incorrect in the first instance.

orourkeda · 07-09-2009 10:26PM

My sister recently went through a break up, she was discussing with a friend what may be the best thing to do regarding the house that herself and the ex had bought together when the friend exclaimed " don't worry, it's only bricks and water"

The same friend used to call the grim reaper the "green creeper".

She isnt the brightest.

Whiskey Devil · 07-09-2009 10:38PM

A little off topic, but do people in Offaly actually say things like Pure Mule?

NedTermo · 08-09-2009 11:06AM

What are you incinerating?

Also people using learn instead of teach gets to me "I'll learn ya!"

08-09-2009 11:18AM

m3llowship wrote: »

Amn't = Am not

I always say Amn't, its the same as saying couldn't or wouldn't as far as I'm concerned.

After 24 years I only very recently found out that the phrase was "play it by ear" not "play it by year" although I'm so used to saying "play it by year" I forget to say it correctly.

Another one I have been corrected on recently although everybody I know says it, is saying "span new" instead of "brand new".

RoyalMarine · 08-09-2009 11:21AM

"are ya wide to that" instead of "are you wise to that"

a forum i use, lots of people from amercica say
"i could care less" and they think its the same as "i couldn't care less"

drives me insane.

NedTermo · 08-09-2009 11:33AM

Andrea Uneven Hose wrote: »

I always say Amn't, its the same as saying couldn't or wouldn't as far as I'm concerned.

After 24 years I only very recently found out that the phrase was "play it by ear" not "play it by year" although I'm so used to saying "play it by year" I forget to say it correctly.

Another one I have been corrected on recently although everybody I know says it, is saying "span new" instead of "brand new".

I've heard of "brand spanking new" but "span new"? huh?

KTRIC · 08-09-2009 11:39AM

My ex boss who's german kept saying "I give a sh!t", which is a litteral translation of the german term. He never quite understood when I explained why it was so wrong.

renraw · 08-09-2009 11:57AM

Why do people say "I don't mean to *sound" pedantic" when clearly they haven't a clue of its true meaning

guerito · 08-09-2009 12:08PM

"In the ascendancy". Football commentators use it all the bloody time. It's "in the ascendant"!!! Man U are not likely to be members of the landed Protestant class in the 18th century.

Pedantic, I know, but isn't that the point of this thread?

NedTermo · 08-09-2009 12:11PM

Another one commentators over use is the personification of everything no matter what it is, Ray Houghton loves this one.

"That is coolness personified"
"He is coolness personified"
"That was perfection personified"

dyl10 · 08-09-2009 12:21PM

amdublin wrote: »

Why do people say "again" when they mean "by the time"

Eg.
"The traffic was so bad, again I got into work it was too late for coffee"
"Again I get home it is time to go out again"

Anyone out there say that? Why?? Why?? Whyyyyyyy?!!!!!

My guess would be that it's an Irish touch on the language.
Possibly to facilitate storytelling, in the past?

"Again I got home, she was there waiting for me"
"By the time I got home, she was there waiting for me"

Alexl · 08-09-2009 12:22PM

My old primary teacher used to call a mausoleum a Mouse-olium.
And my friends baby brother cracks me up, you know the harry potter mysterious ticking noise video, it goes snape, snape se-ver-us snape, repeatedly. Her younger brother keeps singing snakes, snakes, never-eat-snakes!!!!!!!!! Very funny, having said that he is only 4.:):):):)

VERYinterested · 08-09-2009 12:22PM

Ahh, now we're talking, football commentators, Chris Kamara is a dream for mixing up his metaphors. "The Bolton midfield keep sending in high balls which are meat and two veg for the United defence"

But sometimes it is good to say things deliberately like "The world is your lobster" and "What did he die of? He died of a Tuesday" Most intelligent people know you are taking the piss, but you can see someone itching to correct you, which is fun!

NedTermo · 08-09-2009 12:27PM

If anyone remembers the theme tune to the cartoon of "James Bond Junior", there was a line at the end that went , "James Bond Junior Chases Scummmmm.......Around the Word"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W5JdjJBQ1C4
Its at about 35seconds in this clip

One of my friends was convinced it went "James Bond Junior Franciso......Around the World"

As if he had Italian grandparents or something?

RHunce · 08-09-2009 01:09PM

when the GAA and soccer commentators (spl?) say he was literally flying past him or something else with literal in it, that isnt actually literal

:mad: tits :mad:

Trix · 08-09-2009 01:13PM

NedTermo wrote: »

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

i was sitting at my desk yesterday and there was a conversation going on beside me about 'chimleys'. i didn't think something like that would make me soooo mad ...but it did.

hullaballoo · 08-09-2009 01:15PM

I once said, 'plenty more fish in the sea' when I meant to say, 'condolences for your loss'.

That should keep the pedants happy for a while. Carry on.

flanzer · 08-09-2009 01:16PM

Many moons ago, I worked in a newsagent and knackers used to come looking for 'a packa a crip'

Oh how I wanted to throttle these vermin. It's 'packet of crisps' you illiterate mother fúckér

cathysworld · 08-09-2009 01:19PM

My mother is the queen of these...

She called a sat-nav a "hob-nov"

She also says curly sac instead of cul-de-sac

Also says high-sky instead of sky-high

My friend thought it was called a handburger cos u eat it from your hand!!

08-09-2009 01:22PM

RoyalMarineComm wrote: »

"are ya wide to that" instead of "are you wise to that"

Thats not a mistake, just slang. http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/wide Definition 11:

11. British Slang. shrewd; wary.

Anywho, I thought the ad used to say "A mars a day, helps you work less than play" which still makes sense, though not as they meant it. I know someone who once said "your man has a new bird every week, he's a regular casablanca"

Misuse of phrases or cliches

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