Did you ever get any sayings "wrong"

[kdibattista]

For some reason I always thought "Go pound sand" was "Go pound Sam" . DH pointed that out to me one day... I haven't been able to live it down .

Come on... make me feel better

 

[SplshMtn99]

You aren't alone. I see ALOT of these here on the DIS. But of course, I can't think of any right now.

Hmmm, maybe all those people are right & I'm the one who is wrong? Something to think about. LOL

 

[Jessd]

One of my friends does this all the time.

"I would like to be a bird on the wall" (instead of fly)

"A donkey can't change its stripes" (instead of a leopard can't change its spots)

"Hold down" (instead of hold on)


Heck, we kept a book at work with all the sayings one guy would get wrong. I will have to see if I can find some more.

 

[disneygals]

If I'm saying some wrong, nobody's told me yet, but here are some I have heard...

Pure as the given snow (should be driven)
Flying over the handlebars instead of flying off the handle
he has a good work ethnic (s/b ethic)

 

[cepmom]

my BIL says "it isn't worth my wild" instead of while...I have no idea why he thought that made any sense

 

[gshanny]

I remember when I was really little in church. They would sing Hosannah. I felt kind of special that they were singing Oh Shannon to me.
One I say wrong now for the fun of it is 'if it had bit you it would have been a snake'. I knew someone who would say it that way and we could never convince him otherwise.

 

[cardaway]

For some reason I always thought "Go pound sand" was "Go pound Sam" . DH pointed that out to me one day... I haven't been able to live it down .

Come on... make me feel better

You're own version of "Play it again Sam" (which was never actually said in the movie).

When I was young I got song lyrics all wrong, until I learned to look them up.

 

[Cindyluwho]

My husband is the king of getting sayings wrong. For example he says, "That guy has more money than sense" instead of "More dollars than cents/sense". Makes me crazy. I've even heard that one wrong on television. It's a play on words people!!

 

[Darth Cupcake]

All the time. My DH constantly corrects me. I mess up the sayings "Penny wise and pound foolish" and "Don't cut off your nose to spite your face." I always seem to mess them up when I'm arguing and thinking (incorrectly) that I'm making a good point!

 

[EthansMom]

My DH used to say "I chewed him down" when referring to dickering over a price on something. I had to explain to him that that wasn't exactly the correct saying, that the correct saying was something of an ethnic slur, and that what he WAS saying sounded enough like the other saying that people could mishear what he was saying. Once I clued him in, that saying (and the one it sounds like) dropped right out of DH's vocabulary.

 

[AprilShowers]

For some reason I always thought "Go pound sand" was "Go pound Sam" . DH pointed that out to me one day... I haven't been able to live it down .

Come on... make me feel better

I've actually never heard of telling someone to "pound sand". I've always heard to "go pound salt". Referring to the mindless, backbreaking, difficult work in the salt mines.

 

[Nana Annie]

 

[VSL]

My husband is the king of getting sayings wrong. For example he says, "That guy has more money than sense" instead of "More dollars than cents/sense". Makes me crazy. I've even heard that one wrong on television. It's a play on words people!!

Not over here in the UK - over here your husband would be right

I don't think I've ever had any sayings wrong, although I see and hear them said wrong all the time - example: 'I could care less' should be 'I couldn't care less' (if you could care less then you obviously care more than you should ).

 

[Disney Ella]

DH used to say that someone wore coke "bottom" glasses instead of coke bottle glasses. Someone on a thread was complaining about someone else and referred to them as a peach and meant it in a negative way. I always thought a peach was a really wonderful person, at least that's the way my grandmother and all the older people I knew used it.

 

[Tinijocaro]

One friend says "All of THE sudden' rather than "All of A sudden" She also says "Whenever", instead of just plain "when". Example: "Whenever I get home, I'll take a nap'

Another friend says "That's no skin off my teeth" rather than "No skin off my back"

 

[Piglet843]

This is cuter than it is funny probably
But my DDad has always said
"Your gettin on my last nerbe" (nope - not a typo)

Sweet Ol' dad...

Mind you - I am from Alabama - some of us have been known to use the word Hummer for something other than the Vehicle (and no - not the dirty version either - back off)

My DMom uses it to refer to an object that is bigger or weird or different in some way... "Look at that hummer!!"

Not quite as cute as dad - annoying actually...

Carry On...

 

[Darth Cupcake]

One more I forgot earlier -

Instead of "Don't look a gift horse in the mouth," I'd slip up and say "Don't lick a gift horse in the mouth." I got some funny questioning stares and looks of disgust from that slip up.

 

[PanamaMike]

One friend says "All of THE sudden' rather than "All of A sudden" She also says "Whenever", instead of just plain "when". Example: "Whenever I get home, I'll take a nap'

Another friend says "That's no skin off my teeth" rather than "No skin off my back"

And yet we say "I got by/survived/made it, by the skin of my teeth".

 

[Davids-Coco]

Maybe more about proper (American) English, but...

"I feel badly"... really, are your fingers numb? Sorry, as an English major in college and a Tech Writing masters student, this one really gets to me.

My Dh says "all of THE sudden" all of the time! He knows its wrong but can not break the habbit...

thats another one I heard recently from a kid, "break the hobbit." I assume that they thought it was a Lord of the Rings reference.

 

[Lisa loves Pooh]

Every now and then I inadvertenly say that I am "running around with my head cut off like a chicken".


Cracks hubby up every single time. First time I did it, I didn't know why it was funny.