To be still grinning at such silliness?

[BoobleMcB]

So I was casually minding my own business, plodding along when I heard a fella on the phone state that:

Well it was clearly Thursday that broke the camel's straw...

I just about rounded the corner chuckling to myself hoping he didn't notice 😂

What other common sayings have heard people say wrong?

oh giddy my aunts

"It's as plain as the eye can see"

Said by colleague. She is known for her linguistic clangers, and I do wonder if she plays it up sometimes for effect

Colleague referring to her husband: "He's not he brightest tool in the shed"

Ruined that, I mean 'in THE shed'

A colleague once asked what the current exchange rate was for Welsh money

My (non English) coworker once said ‘it’s not my pair of shoes’ instead of ‘it’s not my cup of tea This was YEARS ago and it still makes me chuckle a bit when I think of I t

My Brazilian colleague used to translate her sayings into English (so they weren't wrong, just ones we hadn't heard before). I used to love to hear her say "your head isn't just for wearing a hat" when a student had been particularly dopey.

I mentioned this on another thread recently, but I have a friend who when asked about someone's dodgy relationship said 'well it throws up all kinds of red herrings for me'

Hah! Those are so funny! My sister always says ‘well yeah, but that’s a completely different kettle of chips isn’t it?’ 😂😂😂 I did say ‘fish - you mean fish’ and she looked at me like I’d slapped her and said, ‘why would anyone boil fish in a kettle...?’ But WHO WOULD BOIL A KETTLE OF CHIPS?!?!

Same sister also believed whole heartedly that a dock leaf was called a ‘dot’ leaf.

She never fails to make me laugh.

My DP once said "Well does the Pope still shit in the wood if no one can hear him?" It's sort of stuck.

I don't have any but I'm reading them

My boss said ‘I went as white as a sheep’ today. It was hard to keep a straight face.

Also ‘no thanks that’s my worst cup of tea’ from my friend the other day.

My sister once asked if a man she was interested in was illegible instead of eligible.

Some years ago, two elderly ladies coming out of Barclays together into the drizzle:

"Ooh it's rotten, this weather"
'Well dear it's better than nothing'

OP that is hilarious All these malapropisms (?) are funny.

My Polish friend used to translate Polish sayings into English for example "oh yeah and the cactus will grow from my hand" (equivalent to pigs might fly)or I look like a drowned chicken ( equivalent to I look like a drowned rat). I actually think the drowned chicken saying is better than the English one.

I asked for a chicken milkshake at mcdonalds drive thru last week and even repeated it when she asked what I had said giggling, one of the kids from the back shouted mam chocolate milkshake, you asked for a chicken one.

‘He’s making me the escape goat’.....😳

I’m awful at mixing up sayings like that; would be quite happy I’d made someone laugh if they overheard it though

Someone said to me once "Me and xxx don't see nose to nose." It still makes me laugh today

Iv posted here before about it but up til only a few months ago I thought it was 'shitting through the eye of an eagle'!! No one ever corrected me!

Someone I know always says -

'It's disappeared off the centre of the earth!'

Mental picture of a giant tottering pile of lost belongings at the molten core of the planet. Oh THAT'S where my slipper went!

My mum has many, “cool out man”, she told us she had to eat “apple pie at work” (meant humble pie). Her sister’s just as bad, told her husband his “Duck was cooked” in the middle of a row

I have a friend who used to say that they "would nip something in the butt"