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  • cherryorchard
    cherryorchard Posts: 1,721
    bolloxbolder said:

    Years ago I had this proper dozy lady at work, always getting sayings wrong. My favourite two were

    Happy as a sandbag

    Bald as a Badger.

    You can't be referring to me as I know it should be 'happy as a sand boy'. However the phrase 'bald as a badger' has been used now and again in the Orchard family!

    Sure this has been mentioned before but heard it used twice last week: St Pancreas instead of St Pancras. OK Pancras is a pretty unusual name but ......
  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,026
    I thought it was bald as a badger. What should it be then?
  • bolloxbolder
    bolloxbolder Posts: 7,962
    Bald as a coot
  • JamesSeed
    JamesSeed Posts: 17,380
    Never seen a bald badger.


    Never seen a coot either, as it happens.
  • dizzee
    dizzee Posts: 5,616
    Generally instead of Genuinely
  • cantersaddick
    cantersaddick Posts: 16,930
    Heard one today at work and thought about this thread.

    Don't rock the boot.
  • palarsehater
    palarsehater Posts: 12,296
    cantersaddick said:

    Heard one today at work and thought about this thread.

    Don't rock the boot.

    Was it a jock?
  • North Lower Neil
    North Lower Neil Posts: 22,954
    palarsehater said:

    cantersaddick said:

    Heard one today at work and thought about this thread.

    Don't rock the boot.

    Was it a jock?
    Or a Canadian.
  • EveshamAddick
    EveshamAddick Posts: 7,015
    "Across the piste" instead of "across the piece."

  • sam3110
    sam3110 Posts: 21,270
    Not exactly an expression but the man on the tannoy at London Bridge station just said "thanks very much for your corporation" instead of cooperation and it for me thinking about the amount of times I hear similar errors day to day.
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  • StigThundercock
    StigThundercock Posts: 3,722
    Expressions one bloke continually gets wrong:
    "De cloob is for sale" - liar liar pants on fire
    "The price has been agreed with the party" - means I've told him my price, he's now gone away
  • Oh_Yoni_Boy
    Oh_Yoni_Boy Posts: 1,762
    The Mrs. came out with the attempted phrase "biting at the chomp" this morning.


  • Wheresmeticket
    Wheresmeticket Posts: 17,304
    "The proof is in the pudding".

    "You should get down on your hands and knees and give thanks".
  • soapy_jones
    soapy_jones Posts: 21,355
    I said, "In my EARhole"
  • Leroy Ambrose
    Leroy Ambrose Posts: 14,436
    edited April 2019
    Nothing beats the poster on Netaddicks back in the day who said 'popcorn kettle black' because that's what he thought 'pot calling the kettle black' was... 😂😂😂
  • SoundAsa£
    SoundAsa£ Posts: 22,481
    No way Pedro.
  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,026
    Bonnet de douche, eh Rodney.
  • thai malaysia addick
    thai malaysia addick Posts: 18,336
    edited May 2019
    People who can’t say pacific, I mean specific, annoy me
  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,026
    Burningham
  • Six-a-bag-of-nuts
    Six-a-bag-of-nuts Posts: 8,127
    Reminds me of this exchange on a train full of British holidaymakers travelling through Italy many years ago.
    Spotty youth looking out of train window: "That's what we've been eating all week"
    Middle-aged man: "What, barley?"
    Youth: "Nah, it's Pascetti"
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  • Dippenhall
    Dippenhall Posts: 3,919
    "The exception proves the rule" doesn't actually mean shit happens all the time. It originally meant a rule is perfected by ensuring it covers or excludes exceptional cases rather than the obvious ones.  Bit obtuse and doubt anyone would ever use it as intended except if you were telling the FA how to sort out the handball rule..


  • AddicksAddict
    AddicksAddict Posts: 15,792
    AddicksAddict said:
    All that glitters is not gold.
    That's correct isn't it?
    It should be "All that glisters is not gold " but the glitters version seems to be generally accepted now
    Glisters is not in common usage these days so glitters is probably more understandable. You could always go back to Chaucer's Hyt is not al golde that glareth which predates Shakespeare's line.
    Are you sure that wasn't Sir Alf Ramsey when he was trying not to sound common?
  • AddicksAddict
    AddicksAddict Posts: 15,792
    Stig said:
    I thought it was bald as a badger. What should it be then?
    bolloxbolder said:
    Bald as a coot
    Seeing as both animals have a white stripe/patch on top of the head, you can see how either could be described as bald, but 'coot' is the one I know.
  • Raith_C_Chattonell
    Raith_C_Chattonell Posts: 5,682
    The i before e rule can be helpful, apart from when ... your feisty foreign neighbour Keith leisurely receives eight counterfeit beige sleighs from caffeinated atheist weightlifters.  Weird.


  • Big_Bad_World
    Big_Bad_World Posts: 5,859
    It's a doggy dog world.
  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,026
    Raith_C_Chattonell said:
    The i before e rule can be helpful, apart from when ... your feisty foreign neighbour Keith leisurely receives eight counterfeit beige sleighs from caffeinated atheist weightlifters.  Weird.


    Unique!
  • pettgra
    pettgra Posts: 1,572
    There was a chap at work who would always inform us" that what comes down must go up".
  • iaitch
    iaitch Posts: 10,230
    Was he talking about us getting relegated from the Premier League? 
  • i_b_b_o_r_g
    i_b_b_o_r_g Posts: 18,948
    "Bonnet de douche"
  • Algarveaddick
    Algarveaddick Posts: 21,156
    Stig said:
    Bonnet de douche, eh Rodney.
    i_b_b_o_r_g said:
    "Bonnet de douche"

    Polly wants a cracker... :D

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