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?

Heard a girl (foreign, but spoke fair English) say to her friend "He go away with flea between legs!"

My colleague told me her DH is about as useful as a 'fart in a calendar'

Also had a friend say 'when the cookie comes to crunch.....'

😂😂

One of my colleagues once claimed to have a 'town in grownail'. We are nurses...

I do this ALL THE TIME. I usually mix up two similar sayings. My husband makes me note them down and then reread them to him for larfs. Current list is:

Blow you own horn
Bringing home the bread
We're living mouth to mouth
In the hot chair
Joy kill kill buzz
In the pipework
It never rains but it storms
Hard as old nails
I'm a messy pup
Pissed on your parade
I can hear the clogs ticking
We're old hats
Fan the fire
A rod to beat them with
So long as you're alright Joe
So what's on the books today?

It's a problem.

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

My mum would say "Does the Pope shit in the woods?" - clearly getting it all mixed up. Then wonder why we laughed at her. We had to say it back to her three times before she 'got' it and then got rather embarrassed.

A work colleague referred to his younger sister as green behind the ears . The company my ds worked for had a circumcised canteen 😁

My MIL used to say that my car had a Catholitic Converter, instead of Catalytic Converter!

Always made me laugh as I had visions of The Pope sitting on the roof of my car doing the sign of the cross to people as I drove by.

Elderly aunt having visited Bath with her friend. Oh it was lovely, the GEORGINA houses are very nice.

"He puts me on a peda stool"

Friend's mother would say "skin for knickers" instead of "guts for garters" this was in the 1980s and I still smile remembering it!

I read once on here a poster (who was going through a hard time) said she'd had a wrestler's night! I needed to say it to myself a few times...

I heard of a (supposedly) professional website developer who quoted for a site with "all the Belgian whistles".

During WWII my dad was in the desert - food was scarce and he said that for two weeks running all they had to eat was circumcised marmalade. He meant concentrated!

My lovely co-worker (much more fluent on english than i am in her language)was suturing a wound declared that she liked ' to make sure her flaps were well secured !

Chester doors or Chester draws

My friend used to say she needed a 'piece of quiet' rather than peace and quiet. i prefer her way!

My ex once told me he was going to marinate me with his guitar instead of serenade. I didn't take him up on his kind offer.

Its very common for those who are dyslexic to be confused with language which is why my middle son said - Im just going into the chicken to get some kitchen.

Or my old granny who told my mum - Im just going up to the lingerie dept. My mum resisted the temptation to say well don't linger too long.

They weren't close.

I have a colleague who can never remember “they changed the goalposts” she always says they changed the roundabouts.
She also once said that when she got her first house she was going to get a monogamy table!

Not sayings but I have another colleague who always pronounces hearse as Hearst and antihistamine as antihistorine, it doesn’t matter how many times she is corrected and she is in her 50’s not a youngster who may not of heard the words often

My dad has always taken the bullet by the horns and made a mountain out of a mo-hill. He also once referred to himself as being a mere morsel.

I'm just thinking loudly
(Instead of thinking out loud.)

I'm late on but the one where the old lady said the rainy weather was better than nothing made me guffaw!
These are great!

Mere morsel is so cute!

Asked students if anyone knew why iceberg lettuce can not be fed to rabbits. Favourite answer, “because it’s too cold?” 😂