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?

@ArDali1 there was an advert a few years ago for those yakult type things that played on TLC as tummy loving care so maybe she's taken it from that?

Also daft as it sounds I remember reading a study that said cows moo in accents so not a stretch to think other animals may do the same, although admittedly it does sound batshit 😂

A good friend of mine:-

"He wouldn't say boo to a ghost"

"A cheetah never changes his spots"

A man decorating my parents house and the cat walked on some wet paint "there are cat fingerprints everywhere!

My mum asked a guest if they wanted a little nipple instead of a tipple.

Friend talking about you tube - 'it's just all cute videos of cat puppies'

KITTENS they are called KITTENS

“Ahh, red sky at night, shepherd’s pie.”

-dh (2015)

Just remembered another one from my dear dad (he who referred to himself as a mere morsel):

Very formal, Edwardian-ish Great Uncle visiting us. We'd just finished pudding and my dad was clearing the table. He asked very formal Great Uncle to pass him his bowel....rather than his bowl....

Some comedian used to say 'red sky at night, angel delight' and henceforth that it what it became in our house.

My Mum once told me she'd been to the lobotomist that afternoon. Took me a while but eventually discovered she'd been for a blood test and they had put fancy new signs on the door. She was trying to impress me but the word phlebotomist just wouldn't come.

My friend told me the other day that she thought bonsai trees were actually 'bulls-eye' trees.

And my grandmother once referred to my uncle Martin as the 'sideboard' of the family, rather than the backbone, another uncle piped up 'aye, and I'm the wardrobe and Teresa's the settee'

my Dad
.....And that was the icing on the camel's back.

plus describing his holiday as orgasmic rather than awesome.

Some great ones! These were all collected from the same person, my easily-confused friend:

"It's like pulling hen's teeth!" (re how hard it is to get her DH to talk)

"Sticks and stones don't break no bones"

"Don't kick a gift horse in the mouth"

Boo to a ghost is much more logical than boo to a goose, to be fair!

Erm...”pulling hens’ teeth” IS the correct expression.
Also the sticks and stones one...

x 100

Sorry. Misread the sticks and stones one!!

No it's not Rose - it's

'as rare as hens' teeth' (ie very rare!) and 'like pulling teeth' (ie difficult).

Lol at pulling hens' teeth

My cousin once said
‘In Einstein’ meaning in hindsight. I had to walk out of the room I couldn’t stop laughing. I’ve still not said anything to her bless her.
Also my friend who regularly gets things mixed up said ‘i just feel like I’ve been stabbed in the foot’

RoseWhiteTips ^Erm..."pulling hens' teeth IS the correct expression."

Bless your little 'cock n socks' (courtesy of my dear departed Gran). No sweetie, no, it really isn't.

like pulling teeth - difficult
rare as hens' teeth - very rare

Some one left a review on Clark’s website about a pair of shoes and wrote “fits like a glove” and I chuckled to myself and said “well they obviously have them on in the wrong place then!”

Crossposted with Fizzy.

ex colleagues of mine used to come out with

"well that's put the shit among the pigeons!"

"lets make like a tree and F**k off"

"well its not everyone's cup of crushed up cockroaches is it!"

DSS thinks wonky is pronounced wanky - "Dad your hat is really wanky" - (i agreed!)

That will just open a whole can of beans

One of my friends is great at this. Her dd has had some investigations up her nose (long story!). Turns out she has pollocks up her nose 😂

I didn't have the heart to correct her.

Some of these are brilliant!😂 desperately trying to catch up but people keep adding more haha

I worked with a woman who regularly managed expressions, my favourite was when she describes her empty fridge (empty because she’d been on holiday for 3-4 weeks) as being ‘bare as a cucumber’.

I'm bilingual and mix up expressions in both languages. My sister spent last weekend just laughing at me.

I once said that someone was over the wall (instead of over the hill).

Years ago we were going on a teambuilding camping trip. The manager explained that it was very rustic. My colleague asked if there were any 'flashing' toilets. Without missing a beat he said "no, no flashing toilets, but there are flushing ones." She's never lived it down

Another colleague sent me an email once saying that the staff I was looking for, were found in a box in Cape Town. Obviously meaning stuff. I had visions of someone opening a box and out popped a couple of bewildered people