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?

Not a misheard saying, but paying a bill on the phone:

Man in the phone: “What’s the name on the card, please?”
Me: “Mrs R Jones.”
Man: “Is that R for Romeo?”
Me: “No, it’s R for Rachel.”

I still giggle when I think of it.

My all time fave is obviously Chester drawers

My granny..

Laura Ashley wallpaper was referred to as Ann summers wallpaper...
A tia Maria and coffee is known as a Tina marina coffee.
She’s got some clangers!

My DH has been known to get his "gander up" over irritating events.

These are great! Just what I needed.

To a pp who said their dh is infamous for saying stuff like this, so is mine, I hardly ever correct him as it's hysterical.

Latest one was is that I "collymoddle" my 14yr old ds....

Flamingoingmad Are you my mum? My dad says that, he also asks if bears are catholic and says out of thought, out of mind.

A colleague of my DP has form for these mixed up sayings. My favourite was 'five of one and half a dozen of the other'

My DS's partner says "running around like a legless chicken"...

Chest of draws.

I love the ones that refer to doing something to yourself that you will clearly never be able to...LOL!!! For example:

You need to "waken up to yourself"...(how do you do that) or,
You need to "pull yourself together".. (what?...like a pair of curtains??) or
You need to "get a grip of yourself".. (well,?? maybe you CAN do THAT one..??)..LOL!!

I overheard someone say once "Aye well, thats how the crumble cooks"...

To be Pacific🧐

These are hilarious. My friend at uni used to frequently say "I haven't seen heads or tails of him"

She’s not backwards in coming forward.

Someone DH works with got his phrases mixed up. He accidentally mashed up "pear shaped" and "tits up", so now if something is going wrong, it's going tit-shaped.

My DH worked with a German lady who, frustrated with her old computer when everyone else had recently had an upgrade, declared “it’s all right for you with your brand new spanking machines”. All of 25 years ago and it still makes us 😂

Title in kid’s jotter:

SA

WAHH!!... Just remembered I actually asked someone if their baby had been born "imature" ....(I DID mean premature!!)..

XX

A girl I used to know once stated she'd just had a terrible bout of 'Dinarina'..not a saying but still makes me laugh.

Someone used 'in the twinkle of an eye' instead of in the blink of an eye the other day. Love a crossed metaphor!!

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

I'm thinking something like an egg, chips and ham butty. And I want one.

I told DS that writer Christopher Marlowe had been killed in a ballroom bra instead of bar room brawl.

DM, noticing a button was coming off her new shirt: 'Tsk. What an utter blow job'.

Me (and everyone else on the bus): ?!*

DM:' It's an army expression meaning blown on rather than sewn on.'

She's right, too.

These are brilliant.

My mother has zero geographical knowledge, constantly mispronounces words and is the reigning queen of eggcorns.

During one exchange, when telling me she needed to know whether I could come for tea, she sent me the following text:

'Can you let me know A.S.P.S?'

No rewards for guessing what she meant

My ex MIL asked if my new car had allied (alloy) wheels.