Screwed Up Sayings

[tplumm]

Here's a good one. Wife works at a medical facility. One day a guy calls in for his autopsy results.

 

[jmb]

Here's a good one. Wife works at a medical facility. One day a guy calls in for his autopsy results.

clearly he was brain dead.

 

[Cypwr]

I had a guy at work who uses to say "it's the difference between light and day".

 

[Boxerdaddy]

I feel pretty safe assuming the people I've heard aren't reverting back to Old English. Just judging by the context.:wink:

My point was that according to what I read...at one time "ask" was to them what "axe" or "aks" is to us. Just food for thought. Hey..theres another saying

 

[IsUaClone2]

I had a boss who used: "Don't be penny wise and dollar stupid".

 

[clone26]

I had a boss who used: "Don't be penny wise and dollar stupid".

My dad always used to drop the following:

• Same ****, different toilet or same **** different diaper
• **** the bed, Fred
• You're letting all the flies out - in reference to leaving a door open
• That will go over like a fart in a whirlwind
• Is a snakes **** dusty?

 

[bostrem00]

I don't get where people put an 'r' in words that have "wash" in it....Its not Warshington, warsh, warshing machine etc......

 

[cyman2004]

It's hotter than all get out

 

[roscoedog]

Dryer than a popcorn fart
To windy to stack bbs

 

[c.y.c.l.o.n.e.s]

The "sweating like a stuck pig" line in another thread got me to thinking about commonly messed up sayings. My wife does this all the time - she keeps telling me I should be writing them all down and put them in a book. Her latest: "No skin off my teeth" combining "no skin off my nose" with "by the skin of his teeth." Others?

Not sure if you know this or not, but this is from the Bible...

Job is barely alive due to a terrible illness and says...

"I am nothing but skin and bones; I have escaped with only the skin of my teeth."

Job 19:20

 

[CycloneGB]

Not sure if you know this or not, but this is from the Bible...

Job is barely alive due to a terrible illness and says...

"I am nothing but skin and bones; I have escaped with only the skin of my teeth."

Job 19:20

Im pretty sure he wasn't talking about this saying. He was talking about his gf combining that saying with the "skin off my nose" saying, therefor making it "screwed up."

 

[hawkeyescott]

Cubs Win, Cubs Win.

 

[VeloClone]

Cubs Win, Cubs Win.

Not as bad as "he gone!".

 

[Cyfan4good]

This reminds me...Does Steve Deace pronounce "scenario" the correct way? I'm not an expert by any means, but it's like nails on a chalk board every time he says it.

The other one he has trouble with and a lot of people do too. It's subsidiary, not subsiderary

 

[drednot57]

The "sweating like a stuck pig" line in another thread got me to thinking about commonly messed up sayings. My wife does this all the time - she keeps telling me I should be writing them all down and put them in a book. Her latest: "No skin off my teeth" combining "no skin off my nose" with "by the skin of his teeth." Others?

I thought the saying was "Bleeding like a stuck pig", and "Sweating like a race horse."

 

[drednot57]

Biff: "...why don't you make like a tree and get outta here."

It's "Make like a tree and leaf.

 

[drednot57]

ring around the rosey pocket full of posey

Meaning to "ring around the rosey pocket full of posey"? - Yahoo! Answers

The "ashes" part refers to the cremation of the bodies as there were so many dead, there weren't enough left to bury the bodies, so they burned them. Burning also helped stop the plague as the fleas carrying the disease were burnt along with the bodies.

 

[capitalcityguy]

Is your co-worker Marty Terrill? He says that and it drives me crazy!

My bad. Listened today and the word he says wrong is "all's". He says "alll's" as in, "All's he has to do is...".

 

[Colossus]

Gee Manetley!!!
as an expression of amazement.
WTF

 

[fanaticagain]

A favorite from Sealab 2021:

"They'll be all over me like stink on rice."