Did you ever get any sayings "wrong"

[Rafiki Rafiki Rafiki]

I thought that was don't KICK a gift horse in the mouth....

And we used to say "he was like a bull in a china cabinet" instead of "he was like a bull in a china shop".

 

[Evil Genius]

My dh will say thee a saurus for a thesaurus. I all ways think he's talking about some kind of dinosaur

 

[Mister Incredible]

We have a guy at work that gets sayings so wrong we started recording them and dedicated a web page to them.

Here are some examples:

It's the best thing SINCE bread

It's not rocket surgery

It's a doggie-dog world

You hit the nail on the wall

It's like those unexplainable cropdusters

That was the last place I didn't look

Hey Marc, what are you working on.."Everything in the kitchen sink!"

I have an honorary Kimballism:

I heard it out of the corner of my ear!

If you want more, visit our website www.thetroupe.com click on fun and then on kimballisms, then classic Kimballisms!

 

[VSL]

We have a guy at work that gets sayings so wrong we started recording them and dedicated a web page to them.

Here are some examples:

...

You hit the nail on the wall

This one tickled me!

 

[pirateofthecarolinas]

When my DH wants to know if two items are adjacent. Instead of flush, I say flesh. I don't know why.

I use dunk and duck interchangeably too.

Lori

 

[RealMickeysGirl]

One of my sorority sisters - admittedly, after a few drinks on one of our beach trips - was meaning to say "it wasn't carved in stone" and ended up saying "it wasn't sewed in stone". We haven't let her forget it either.

Another friend's family always says "don't be a morter" instead of "don't be a marter" - aparently one of the kids used to say morter instead of marter and the rest of the family thought it was cute and started using it to.

I have a friend who constantly says Ideal instead of Idea - that one bugs me.

 

[Minnie824]

Til I was in college, I used to think when they were talking about the 'Wind Chill' on the weather that it was called the "Wind Shield".

 

[kdibattista]

Thank goodness... now I don't feel so bad

 

[Mister Incredible]

My all-time favorite was:

The Atkinson diet has been working great for me.

Atkinson is a town right next to where we work in NH. There must be a lot of skinny people there

 

[RUDisney]

Mr. Incredible, we have Jerry-isms, but never dedicated a website to him. Please note that Jerry is one of the smartest people I've ever met. He has 2 master's degrees and a PhD. What he has in book smarts, he makes up for in social ineptness.

Jerry-isms:

"Six of one, one or the other."

"The wind shield factor will make it feel very cold today."

"He won't have to pay taxes on that. He got paid BEHIND THE COUNTER."

There are tons of them. These are the ones I can think of right now.

 

[Mister Incredible]

Mr. Incredible, we have Jerry-isms, but never dedicated a website to him. Please note that Jerry is one of the smartest people I've ever met. He has 2 master's degrees and a PhD. What he has in book smarts, he makes up for in social ineptness.

Jerry-isms:

"Six of one, one or the other."

"The wind shield factor will make it feel very cold today."

"He won't have to pay taxes on that. He got paid BEHIND THE COUNTER."

There are tons of them. These are the ones I can think of right now.

Marc is an incredible Motion Graphics Designer, he is extremly talented. We just keep him away from script writing, and know when the graphics have words we need to double check spelling!

 

[Annette_VA]

For the longest time I thought it was "for all intensive purposes" instead of "for all intents & purposes"

 

[Straitlover]

My DBIL always says "It's a mute point" instead of moot point. We always get a kick out of that.

According to Joey on Friends, it's "moo, as in the point is moo".

 

[AprilShowers]

We were camping with a family last summer, and their little 5YO DS was frustrated with someone when he said "Don't you understand college?"
Instead of Don't you understand English?"

Of course, we roared! Now, whenever someone does something stupid, silly or annoying, we just repeat "Don't you understand college?"
Nobody else gets it though...