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?

Yesterday my friend said she had gone “raw turkey”. Took me ages to realise what on earth she was on about and it was “cold turkey”

Years ago my lovely neighbour who was in his late 80s was telling me about having an MRI of his head. He’d asked them how it works and had been told his brain was full of “thousands of maggots” 😳😳 Luckily he didn’t seem the least bit alarmed. I thought about it and guessed they must have said “thousands of magnets” which admittedly wasn’t the best way to explain it to him!

Thebluedog

I always thought it was
Red sky at night, SHEPHERDS delight, red sky in the morning, SAILERS warning

Asian tourist at Sydney Opera house asked me to take her picture. Her t shirt said Put your best left foot forward.

My mum's friend once told her a story about an "unclothed" policeman.

@GrandDesespoir

Having worked for as police staff in a residential establishment and been to many parties, that really doesn't strike me as odd....

I'm actually going to admit this...

I spent ages wondering why I never got any lettuce in the slice I had from the bakery at lunch. Two years on DH pointed out I was eating a vegetable lattice

Where I use to work a few years ago, one colleague said "tummy loving care" instead of "tender love and care", she thought that's what TLC meant.
Another colleague asked a manager, "In Ireland, when horses neigh, do they have an Irish accent?"

At uni theatre soc, listening to a director go through breakdown of male/female parts. Says there are a couple of roles that can be erogenous.

Androgynous. The word is androgynous

Ha ha at erogenous.
The woman doing a talk in the aquarium said that clownfish and sea anemone have a "symbolic" relationship

When unboxing something new, my Mum always asks where the 'Destructions' are

Conversation at work:
Colleague: blah blah, it was a bit of a damp squid.
Me: It's squib, a firework. Not a squid, which would obviously be damp, because it lives in the sea
Collegue: Exactly! (triumphant voice) Fireworks are dry.
Me: slaps head

Just to be absolutely clear, I slapped my own head, not my colleagues (although it was tempting to knock some sense into them)

My colleague once said that she was up to her debt in eyeballs, oh how I howled

I’ve been reading this thread and I just said to my DH that something was “death by a thousand bee stings.” I never get idioms wrong, this thread is a bad influence!

My grandad in hospital, said he'd had hole in the heart for dinner! Turned out he meant toad in the hole. I was embarrassed, with it being a hospital, but the nurses thought it was hilarious

My ex once told a barber he just needed the cunt frut!

A good Portuguese friend of mine told her husband 'not to beat himself around the bush '!!!
Same wonderful friend when chatted up by a female one night told her she 'liked sausage not fish' 😂😂😂😂.
On a particularly bumpy flight my terrified mum was told by her fellow elderly passenger 'don't worry dear it's only terminal ' 😲 not sure my mum wanted to hear that 🤔

Stuff of family legend credited to different Aunties:

'Is the Pope Irish?' (becamse shortened to 'is the Pope? then merely to 'Is?')

'Don't poke me' (stick a fork in me)

and not quite a saying, but still funny, 'Gastropods' (poltergeists)

I was once having a lovely chat with a colleague whilst he was driving. I had to bite my tongue and look away when he said his daughter spent ages in the bathroom performing her absolutions.

My husband’s labourer being asked to do something “Ok, ok, I’m not made of octopus!” 😁

Haven't RTFT so apologies if this has been mentioned already - but just remembered Joey Tribbiani in Friends:

"It's a moo point....you know, a cow's decision."

Last night: look how hair his long is getting! (As we bathed our DS.) Took me a while to notice DH's mistake. In our defence we are both exhausted!

Loving mere morsel 😀

and there is was, gone

they're all the same, some of them