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Sayings - Get It Right!

bazjonster
bazjonster Posts: 2,875
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Chilling in my Sheffield hotel with my boy and it troubled me again! People who use the wrong phrase/terminology for sayings that are regularly used. So, what sayings that people routinely get wrong annoy you? Let me give you some to start:

1. 'Gun - Ho'. Wrong! Get it right, it's GUNG- HO.
2. 'Lacksadaisical'. Wrong! Get it right, it's LACKADAISICAL.
3. 'Tenderhooks'. Wrong! Get it right, it's TENTERHOOKS.

Any more?

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  • Exiled_Addick
    Exiled_Addick Posts: 17,168
    edited March 2014
    Air on the side of caution! Get it right, it's ERR on the side of caution.
    Edge your bets, - Get it right, it's HEDGE your bets.
  • ShootersHillGuru
    ShootersHillGuru Posts: 50,618
    All that glitters is not gold.......Agh

    Glisters !!!!
  • EpsomAddick
    EpsomAddick Posts: 2,555
    'He's been hard done to there'

    NO! It's 'He's been hard done BY there'
  • Eddie Firmani
    Eddie Firmani Posts: 650
    Heard a bloke on the radio the other day saying "the short and curlies of it is ..." - oh dear, doughnut alert - it's "the long and short of it".
  • Riscardo
    Riscardo Posts: 2,337
    Another thing coming .... It's think
    For all intensive purposes ...intents

    And the one that annoys me the most when peeps get i.e. and e.g. confused !!!!
  • LenGlover
    LenGlover Posts: 31,651
    edited March 2014
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  • legaladdick
    legaladdick Posts: 1,808
    I worked with a plum who kept on talking about something being 'a damp squid.' It's not a wet cephalopod you cretin!! It's 'a damp SQUIB.

    And as for glitters/glisaters/glistens/ in the Merchant of Venice by Will Shakes Iago recites 'all that glitters is not gold.' Good enough for me:-)
  • CafcCrazy
    CafcCrazy Posts: 808
    LenGlover said:

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    There have been several threads making this point.
  • thenewbie
    thenewbie Posts: 11,000
    Perpetually saying 'I could care less' instead of 'I could not/couldn't care less' it means the EXACT OPPOSITE FOR GOD'S SAKE.
  • Absurdistan
    Absurdistan Posts: 8,024
    bazjonster said:

    Chilling in my Sheffield hotel with my boy and it troubled me again! People who use the wrong phrase/terminology for sayings that are regularly used. So, what sayings that people routinely get wrong annoy you? Let me give you some to start:

    1. 'Gun - Ho'. Wrong! Get it right, it's GUNG- HO.
    2. 'Lacksadaisical'. Wrong! Get it right, it's LACKADAISICAL.
    3. 'Tenderhooks'. Wrong! Get it right, it's TENTERHOOKS.

    Any more?

    Not much to do in Sheffield on a Saturday night?
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  • Stu_of_Kunming
    Stu_of_Kunming Posts: 17,116
    thenewbie said:

    Perpetually saying 'I could care less' instead of 'I could not/couldn't care less' it means the EXACT OPPOSITE FOR GOD'S SAKE.

    This a million times over, I don't know why it makes me so angry but it does.

    I mostly hear this mistake from the stupid Americans I have to share an office with.
  • bazjonster
    bazjonster Posts: 2,875
    Absurdistan said:

    bazjonster said:

    Chilling in my Sheffield hotel with my boy and it troubled me again! People who use the wrong phrase/terminology for sayings that are regularly used. So, what sayings that people routinely get wrong annoy you? Let me give you some to start:

    1. 'Gun - Ho'. Wrong! Get it right, it's GUNG- HO.
    2. 'Lacksadaisical'. Wrong! Get it right, it's LACKADAISICAL.
    3. 'Tenderhooks'. Wrong! Get it right, it's TENTERHOOKS.

    Any more?

    Not much to do in Sheffield on a Saturday night?
    A very valid point Absurdistan! However, I was on tenterhooks all night and didn't want to go all gung-ho in Sheffield. I felt that would have been a totally lackadaisical approach! Mind you, in hindsight, a night on the pop would maybe have helped eased the next day's pain!

  • sadiejane1981
    sadiejane1981 Posts: 9,012
    Which is right?... Can't be arsed! Or can't be asked! ?

    Never known always wondered.
  • EastTerrace
    EastTerrace Posts: 3,961
    sadiejane1981 said:

    Which is right?... Can't be arsed! Or can't be asked! ?

    Never known always wondered.

    I spent years saying asked but it's arsed apparently. Maybe asked is what adults used to say in front of children?

    Whatever, it applies to tomorrow night..... even though I will be there.
  • shine166
    shine166 Posts: 13,914
    sadiejane1981 said:

    Which is right?... Can't be arsed! Or can't be asked! ?

    Never known always wondered.

    cant be asked doesnt even make sense :)
  • EastTerrace
    EastTerrace Posts: 3,961
    Found this on the web....



    I was bugged by this and found a thread about it elsewhere. One person said this:

    'My understanding is that the original is "I can't be asked", as a double generalization of "You could not ask me to do something," with the implication of this earlier phrase being that even if you asked me to do something, I would not do it. If I would not do anything (as opposed to something), regardless of who asked me to do it (you, or you, or you), then I truly can't be asked.'

    Apparently in the 1990s people changed it to arsed and it just kind of stuck. My best friend says asked, I say arsed. Some people just didn't jump on the bandwagon I'm guessing.
  • JiMMy 85
    JiMMy 85 Posts: 10,189
    thenewbie said:

    Perpetually saying 'I could care less' instead of 'I could not/couldn't care less' it means the EXACT OPPOSITE FOR GOD'S SAKE.

    Americans say 'could'. It works if you say it in the right way. "I COULD care less... But not much less."

    Champing at the bit. Although chomping seems acceptable, I stick to champing.
  • DRF
    DRF Posts: 2,455
    Damp Squid!

    It's damp squib you idiot, squid are meant to be damp.
  • AddicksAddict
    AddicksAddict Posts: 15,780
    ShootersHillGuru said:

    All that glitters is not gold.......Agh

    Glisters !!!!

    I thought the quote was 'Nor all that glistens, gold' but I'm happy to be corrected.
  • AddicksAddict
    AddicksAddict Posts: 15,780
    Stonewall penalty. What is that? A stone cold penalty I can understand. A stonewall penalty is perhaps a fine paid by a gay rights group?
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  • JiMMy 85
    JiMMy 85 Posts: 10,189
    Going to ground. Means to go into hiding, not fall over. Although I think I'm losing this battle now.
  • cafcfan
    cafcfan Posts: 11,198
    Although it's actually "rigor mortis" can us Charlton fans actually use the phrase Riga mortis instead now?
  • Jints
    Jints Posts: 3,487
    Here, here Hear, hear
  • March51
    March51 Posts: 3,256
    There, there.......as said by mothers to sooth crying babies. There where? And what happens there?
  • Jack_Charlton
    Jack_Charlton Posts: 338
    We are Charlton, Super Charlton, We are Charlton ??????
    Coming in or come on then
  • sadiejane1981
    sadiejane1981 Posts: 9,012
    Jack Charlton said:

    We are Charlton, Super Charlton, We are Charlton ??????
    Coming in or come on then

    Covered end
  • rikofold
    rikofold Posts: 4,051
    EastTerrace said:

    Found this on the web....



    I was bugged by this and found a thread about it elsewhere. One person said this:

    'My understanding is that the original is "I can't be asked", as a double generalization of "You could not ask me to do something," with the implication of this earlier phrase being that even if you asked me to do something, I would not do it. If I would not do anything (as opposed to something), regardless of who asked me to do it (you, or you, or you), then I truly can't be asked.'

    Apparently in the 1990s people changed it to arsed and it just kind of stuck. My best friend says asked, I say arsed. Some people just didn't jump on the bandwagon I'm guessing.

    http://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/can't+be+arsed. 'Can't be asked' isn't there. That story sounds like someone's excuse because they've been getting it wrong all these years.
  • rikofold
    rikofold Posts: 4,051
    sadiejane1981 said:

    Jack Charlton said:

    We are Charlton, Super Charlton, We are Charlton ??????
    Coming in or come on then

    Covered end
    Oh Jack...

  • lordromford
    lordromford Posts: 7,767
    thenewbie said:

    Perpetually saying 'I could care less' instead of 'I could not/couldn't care less' it means the EXACT OPPOSITE FOR GOD'S SAKE.

    I always thought that when people said "I could care less" it was hinting that "I could care less....but not much"
    I still prefer "I couldn't care less" though.

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