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?

He's just burying his head in the ostrich.

I love this!

I always use the phrase that the temp canteen manager in Dinnerladies, Nichola Bodeaux (B-o-d-e-a-u-x) used:

I don't mince my punches.

And no-one seems to turn a hair.

S

We were at the cinema with a friend buying popcorn. So at the till he asked for some 'Cockporn'. You should have seen the sales girl's face. I still laugh when I think of it.

Bless his little cock n’ socks .....crying with laughter at that one!

Pulling hen's teeth is so useful - it fills a gap you didn't know you had, like misunderestimated

We had a lot of people off sick at work a few years back so we were short staffed. A colleague asked me how things were going and I replied 'We're a bit low on the ground' I've never been allowed to forget it

FizzyGreenWater

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

Argh!!!

slinks off covered in humiliation

DP just said Mugabe Desert....he meant Mojave Desert 😂

We’ve got a friend here for dinner, he’s just said that he sleeps in the fecal position.

Gross.

Ah Rose 🌺

For all intensive purposes.

Dh says Jesus wet when frustrated. I've tried to tell him it's wept not wet. He insists he's right.

If you've got a bible handy, show him John 11:35 - or online at Bible Gateway

who would boil chips in a kettle
I don't know who would boil chips in a kettle, but you can fry them in one. Perhaps your sister was thinking of the brand of crisps?

he also asks if bears are catholic
This goes back to a time when the Pope of the time was rather infirm, and, when travelling, had to have a bearer with him to carry him into the woods for privacy when relieving himself. Apparently, people were worried that a Protestant or a "Moor" (as Muslims were called at the time) might exploit the situation, so the burning question of the time became not, "Does the Pope shit in the woods?", but, "Is the bearer Catholic?"

Patience is a Gertrude.
Patience is a virtue,
Virtue is a grace;
Grace was a little girl,
Who never washed her face.

ambulance chasing has nothing to do with fire fighting

DS put his jumper on the wrong way round once and declared it "inside to front", which we still use for things and situations which have gone a bit wrong.

Ah I've thought of another one

A family member was telling me about the Jungle Book film, including their favourite character - the elephants' leader Colonel Gaddafi

trevor Now that would be a far more sinister film!

Cripes on a Bike is another one I've heard as an expression of surprise/exasperation (a La Christ on a Bike)

[GRIN]

Oops grin fail!

No holes barred - please someone put me out of my misery. I can feel work out what's wrong!