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Malformed Idioms
April 13, 2018 at 5:15 am
(This post was last modified: April 13, 2018 at 5:24 am by ignoramus.)
I just can't take it anymore!
I need to vent!
I've told her a million times but she's too set in her ways.
In a phone conversation with her friend 2 days ago:
She says: "The writing's on the blackboard" .................................... (maybe she never really got over Mr Squiggle!
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She says: "You have to think outside the circle" ................................... Jesus Christ. I give up!
And lastly she always says: "As a constellation", you will still receive something, etc ........... Yep! My dear wife is now a fucking Astrophysicist!
Heard any other bastardised English sayings? Put them here ...
I’m waiting with baited breath...
No God, No fear.
Know God, Know fear.
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RE: Malformed Idioms
April 13, 2018 at 6:34 am
-You could have knocked me over with a fender.
-Better safe than soggy.
-There's more than one was to skin a catch.
-I wouldn't trade it for all the peas in China.
Boru
‘But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods or no gods. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.’ - Thomas Jefferson
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RE: Malformed Idioms
April 13, 2018 at 6:43 am
Why don't you make life a tree and get out of here! - Biff in Back to the future
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RE: Malformed Idioms
April 13, 2018 at 6:50 am
Calm down Iggy, you need to stop and smell the tulips.
Before you know it you'll have your wife walking on sea shells.
Make like a fence and get over it.
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RE: Malformed Idioms
April 13, 2018 at 8:53 am
Ones I hear/see all the time:
That's a mute point
For all intensive purposes
He got his just desserts
It begs the question
"Tradition" is just a word people use to make themselves feel better about being an asshole.
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RE: Malformed Idioms
April 13, 2018 at 8:56 am
"I could care less" always irks me. That means you have some level of caring! The real phrase is "I couldn't care less."
In every country and every age, the priest had been hostile to Liberty.
- Thomas Jefferson
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RE: Malformed Idioms
April 13, 2018 at 9:42 am
"The time is apond us" A guy I used to work with used that one a lot...even after I corrected it in a document he wrote.
If you get to thinking you’re a person of some influence, try ordering somebody else’s dog around.
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RE: Malformed Idioms
April 13, 2018 at 11:32 am
I'm thinking of the movie 'Short Circuit' where the Indian character does this throughout the movie, ex. "You can say that two times."