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?

A French speaking colleague once described someone as a "testing piggy" meaning "guinea pig". Still makes me laugh 25 years later.

Twiceover - aren't all squid damp?

A girl I lived with in halls one said "it's like shooting two birds with two guns". Will never forget that .

I've said "as the fly crows" more than once.

I know it's a proper saying but "don't look at me in that tone of voice, it smells a funny colour" makes me smile.

I once heard a couple arguing on the table next to us in a restaurant.

He stated very pompously.. "well we're clearly at opposite ends of the speculum on this one!".

I spat my drink out.

'He's not a full shiner is he'

“Bobs your ankle.” Said by a school gate Mum, I had to walk away because I could keep a straight face!

why would anyone boil fish in a kettle

I'm assuming you know that a kettle is also a large container/pot?

A fish kettle in fact

I love these...

My Mum, complaining about the mess my brothers had made in the living room, said that it "had gone to rat and ruin".

and at Christmas, exclaiming delight at her tree, she said she was 'tickled green'.

"I smell a rat and I am going to nip it in the bud before it grows wings".

My former line manager at a team meeting. None of us were sure whether she was taking the piss out of herself or not.

Yes, but it was 'cat amongst the penguins!

You can hire fish kettles y'know -
from Waitrose, naturally

My younger brother kept misquoting a phrase from the Famous Five. He would say: "Good riddance, and bad rubbish!"

He also said: "but that's the opule of the game!!"

And "don't touch that book, it's my population!".

He didn't know what the word meant, but like Alice in Wonderland, he thought it was a nice grand word to say.

My sister wnet on a first aid course, and instead of talking about the Heimlich Manoeuvre , the person leading the course kept saying 'Heimlich Remover'.
One of amy aunts also thought that Alzheimer's Disease was 'old timers disease'.

Just what I needed before I prise them into bed. Thanks!
(I'll prise them out again in the morning)

My Mother, who never ever swears;
"I've been so busy - I've been buzzing around like a blue-arsed you-know-what!"

I just remembered someone myself saying dourly "Well I just let the bag out of the cat didn't I?"

Then cringed as I realised that a) I'd let the cat out of the bag and b) I had just provided my family with a year's-worth of ammunition for teasing me

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He also mixes sparkling wine and orange juice and gets samosas! It’s quite a talent
Ah, that's funny, my DH was asked to join colleagues for mimosas (i.e. Buck's Fizz) and went expecting samosas...

My Dutch ex boyfriend used to say "I got the cow off the ice" when he'd rescued a situation or solved a problem. Obviously slightly lost in translation

This thread is brilliant. My friend is known for doing these all the time. Her pbs are:
“It happened Oliver Sudden” (whoever he is!) and “let’s just play it by YEAR”.

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

my boss used to say "damp squid" which really made me laugh.
An elderly Irish friend of ours is notorious for getting her words mixed up and after regaling us with a story where she had fallen and hit her head causing her to drift in and out of consciousness she said " I was in and out of Bolivia all night". We think she meant oblivion.

I can't contribute because I am still pissing myself at "Well does the Pope still shit in the wood if no one can hear him?"

Flamingoingmad your DH is a legend.

I have never used the phrase "damp squid" and thank God I didn't.

It's damp squib

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