Malformed Idioms

[Fireball]

It's just awkward, but I heard this on the news one night:

When the parents returned, their baby was discovered to be missing.

Guess it needed to have a plug wire or two reconnected?

[Silver]

She says: "The writing's on the blackboard"    ....................................  (maybe she never really got over Mr Squiggle! )
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!

Not sure what's wrong with the first one.

As to the second one, I like to change up what's "common" to be weird and unique.

For the third, perhaps she means consolation.

[c172]

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

I never knew the third was wrong. Just kind of annoying.
Fourth really, either. But the rest of this thread explains that for me.

[Divinity]

It's just deserts, not just desserts.

[c172]

Oh, weird. That looks kind of funny to me, tbh.

[robvalue]

You're a malformed idiom

A teacher once said to me, "I didn't fall off a Christmas tree yesterday!"

This probably doesn't count, but I'm annoyed by the recent trend of saying, "whole nother thing" instead of "whole other thing". How did that start? What's it supposed to even mean? Short for another? Makes no sense. I guess it's combining two ways of saying it's something different, and it makes me so angry I have to karate chop a brick each time I hear it.

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She says: "The writing's on the blackboard"    ....................................  (maybe she never really got over Mr Squiggle! )
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!

Not sure what's wrong with the first one.

As to the second one, I like to change up what's "common" to be weird and unique.

For the third, perhaps she means consolation.

The first one's meant to be, "The writing's on the wall", I believe.

"...an idiomatic expression that suggests a portent of doom or misfortune, based on the story of Belshazzar's feast in the book of Daniel." [Wikipedia]

[Jarrey]

The phrase "they slept together" usually means they did anything but sleeping.