Phrases you got wrong...

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DH said "under my wig" rather than " getting on my wick" for when something was annoying.

I thought it was trickle treating for much longer than I should admit, in my defence I was never taken as a child and didn't fully understand what I was beyond sweets until my teens.

My mum says "Tender Hooks"

I thought pix and mix was Pickle Mix and then Pick or Mix.

if it's not tender hooks, what is it?
Tenter hooks?
What are these anyway?

Only recently I found the phrase “the customer is always right” was actually “the customer is always right in matters of taste” , so actually a completely different thing . Mr Selfridge only intended the customer to have autonomy over his or her style choice , not be right in every blinking issue!

DH says "I'm parching" when he's thirsty instead of "I'm parched". Not quite a phrase but it annoys me.

Going back many years I thought it was labtop not laptop. It made no sense but took me about 10 years to notice!

Tenterhooks are hooks used to hold and stretch clothes on a drying rack or tenter (a sort of wooden frame)

It’s Pick and Mix isn’t it? As in you pick and mix them into one bag.

DD thought the phrase was doing something ‘off your own back’ instead of ‘bat’.

I always say "you've got another thing coming!" and even argued with a book editor at a publisher over it before shamefully learning I was wrong.

The "correct" version just doesn't sound grammatically correct to me.

I always thought it was "in the wards" when someone was injured, like in the hospital wards.

Someone not so graciously pointed out that it's actually "in the wars" 😳

Oh also to go over something "with a toothcomb" instead of "with a fine-toothed comb". I think I thought people kept their toothcomb somewhere near their bargepole?

Not a saying but precocious and promiscuous, I always mix up. Luckily it's not an every day word.

When she was little, our Head of Lower School at secondary thought the place where wreaths were placed on Remembrance Sunday was a warm memorial. She plucked up the courage to go and touch the stone and was everso disappointed.

When our DC was little he used to get me playing Kings and Queens and said “Sit here, Your Emergency”

Had a friend that would say it's only bricks and water

In school assemblies I used to think the words were 'I am the Lord of the dance settee....'

Since I was a kid I've heard people who are unwell say they felt like a 'death worn duck', which always struck me as an odd turn of phrase. I've only recently discovered that's not what they were saying at all!

You can't make pigs ear out of a silk purse
It's actually the other way round ! Lol

For decades I thought "no rest for the wicket" had something to do with cricket