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?

completely outing myself here, but lovely relative has used both "watching her like a limpet" and "like a whippet up a drainpipe". And an endearing work colleague cheerily commented the other day that somebody was "beavering away like a fox". It's that sort of attitude that makes me enjoy my workplace

A colleague at work was convinced that it was 'play it by hear' and even tried to justify her reasoning when it was explained to be 'ear'.
Not a saying as such but a friend once gave someone a bollocking for saying that they were starving because 'there are people in euthanasia that are dying of hunger every day.' She meant Ethiopia!
Absolutely dying at the pope shutting in the woods!

There are plans underfoot for the party.

Lol

My teenage son described someone who " smokes like a fish " and that he knew a route through the woods " like the back of my head "!

'Shooting through the eye of a needle'
Said by my friend. 😂

It made me laugh quite a lot a few weeks ago when I was walking to the main road and there was a group of people crossing and one of the guys said to one of the girls 'hey beautiful lady...beautiful lady...you've dropped something...a gorgeous specimen of a man!'

Evrryone ignored it until I screeched with laughter then they all turned around and started laughing too!

I saw a post on fb where someone was referring to their 'sole mate' and someone had replied 'I hope he doesn't walk all over you!'

Also an ex-work colleague used to say 'don't get your nipples in a twist!'

A French colleague once told us that a task was "a finger in the nose." Apparently it's the French equivalent of "it's a piece of cake." He was most surprised when we told him that it wasn't a saying over here!

My DH is prone to these.

I remember some years ago him coming out with "to kill one bird with one stone".

My friend often gets sayings wrong. We once had "I wouldn't butter an eye lid" and the best was "oh well, another day another duck" Another friend on the other hand asked how you spell RSPCA. 😂

These are brilliant. Just don’t go casting nasturtiums...

My ex told me I needed to get down off my pedal stool. By text. Oooooh I did LOL

Dh is brilliant for this. I NEVER correct him.
He’s as mean as mustard. Also stop ravaging me - he means ravish

steppemum I know that fish kettles exist, my sister believed the saying was kettle of chips and when I corrected her she asked who would boil a fish in a kettle and I replied with ‘who would boil chips in a kettle?!’ But thanks for all the fish boiling info guys, I’ll forward into her ;)

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An ex-colleague who could only talk in incomprehensible business babble came out with 'these performance targets are a moving feast' in a meeting.

I was moved to a smirk, anyway...

Had a few at work in the last 2 years or so

“Too many chiefs, not enough broth”
“It’s 6 and 3 3s”
And my fave when a colleague was talking about another member of staff she didn’t trust,
“He’s a wolf in cheap clothing!”

My exdp once asked me if a BLT sandwich was Breakfast Lunch and Tea all in one...

Ffs

Oh and my dearly departed nan was horrified that my auntie called her baby Cameron.... her exact words were " why call a lovely little baby after a country in Africa? "

She meant Cameroon!

Not quite the same but my kind and caring mother in law believed lol to mean lots of love and put it at the end of a message of condolence.she didn't realise the correct meaning until it came up in conversation later.

This is really outing but a lovely colleague I once worked with, English was not her first language, but she spoke it brilliantly. She said "it's all tits in the air" I can't remember whether she was going for it's all gone tits up or it's all up in the air, but either way, it was very funny.

@lordsugar that’s amazing!!! And possibly a business venture !

Was on an interview panel filling a position and let junior member of staff sit in and ask a few Qs to give her some experience,
“So XX, what do you think your role will consume of?”
She meant consist 🙄

'Single' socks (odd socks)
Sprinkles (freckles)
Snippets (parsnips)

All French DH

He's actually quite bright

A colleague described being gang raped into something rather than being press ganged. Oh dear.

My DM talks about her mother picking up on a new word she’d overheard and deciding to use it. While DM and her brother were messing around at the bus stop, DGM hissed at them ‘will youse two stop your wanking!’