Something on radio 5 other day about mistakes people make with "well known" phrases or expressions.... Such as damp squid, on tenderhooks, mute point etc etc



Thankfully I have never been guilty of any of those ...... But am I the only one that used to proclaim " it depends on how the lamb lies " ?? I only realised my mistake twenty years later after first using it. Whoops !

I blame the classic Gabriel led, Genesis album of 1974 affecting me in my formative years.

( Now I'm going shopping )

Somebody I used to work with used the phrase "moo point" once. She had a tremendous flair for using things that almost sounded like well known phrases, but that was my favourite.

She even tried to explain what it meant, which involved the opinions of cows, but I forget the details. Probably as laughter was starving my brain of oxygen by that point.

the early Genesis albums were pretentious rubbish IMO - produced by spoilt brats of rich families who were taking the proverbial.......

anyway,on to expressions - I recall an old old seafaring mate from Torquay coming out with the expression

"one swallow doesn't make an orgy" !

just stuck with me for some reason ?

Screamish or squeemish or what other one?

Smokes like a Chimley

'pacific' instead of 'specific' always garners a wry smile upon my handsome face.

We have come to a Muetral agreement

brought instead of bought!

Boa constructer

Rob Burrows.

No he doesn't!

It's a 'Friends' joke.

...straying into song lyrics.... Rory Gallagher on the radio the other night so I starts singing along to Shadow Play... what's that you're singing says the wife, Shadow Play says I.... oh I've been singing Shallow Grave for years!!

I still refuse to believe that Van Halen aren't telling Maxwell to jump.

Well I'll go t'foot of our stairs

A bloke I worked with used to tell me how "cream knackered" he was at the end of pretty much everyday.

Schedule pronounced 'Skedule' does my nut

Seconded.
Motion passed.

On the subject of mixed-up expressions, I'm married to a Geordie, my life these past 31 years has been one long round of "pardon?".

Pmsl @Mcf.

Should of.
Lend/lent instead of borrow/borrowed.
Learned instead of taught.

should of instead of should have

your instead of YOU're

it's instead of its

compliment instead of complement

With regards to lyrics.... I knew it could not be right, but for years I thought Abba were singing "knowing me knowing you, chasing my ass"..... I couldn't ask anybody, because in those days no self respecting young man could admit to listening to such 'lame' music. It was only in later life that I found out some of my mates also had a secret copy of Abba Arrival and The Album.
We all sing along now to 'when I kissed the teacher' and 'the eagle'..

there, their, they're

Been.

'looser' & 'loosing' instead of 'loser' & ' losing'.