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?

...and another one wrote about trickle treating at Halloween! Tbf English wasn’t her first language.

Just tonight when dh was telling me about his job he told me he did a lot of ambulance chasing. Fire fighting you mean?

My friend Tony telling me someone was all over him ‘like shit on a fly’

I adore "Testing Piggies" _

I was once referring to a games console and got "game boy" and "PlayStation" mixed up.
Called it a "Playboy"

naughtymutha I like that one, and think we should make a new one: "Best thing since life's middle aged spread!"

'He wouldn't say boo to a ghost!'

My DD once heard someone say about something being pitch black. So when we saw a white cat one day she said, Mum did you see that cat, it was pitch white!

Oh and she also once said 'you're getting on my nuts', a mixture of getting on my nerves and driving me nuts!

Someone I used to know:

'You have to grim and bear it.'

Grim apparently being short for 'grimace'.

Duh.

Aaah, when my 25 year old was little, when I put make up on to go on a rare night out, he would say "Mummy you've got your limpstick on!

A friend of mine - early 50's - was playing crazy golf with my 15 year old DS. She beat him and was really pleased with herself and shouted "yay, now I'm going to do a lap dance". She then realised she had got somehow stuck between "lap of honour" and "victory dance".

The y both shouted Ewwww and agreed never to mention it again

Friend used to say she had tears strolling down her face

My mom prefers semi skilled milk in her tea

My mums cousin once said there are millions of midgets in my garden. She meant midges!

Terry Pratchett says “A leopard doesn’t change his shorts”...makes me chuckle every time

Oh yes its not a saying but makes me laugh. When dh says beach it sounds like bitch. The kids like to throw stones in the water. So he says lets go throw stones at the beach. But it sounds like lets go throw stones at the bitch. And then if misheard again it can aound like lets go throw stones at the witch! Not sure which one is worse

Pissing myself laughing here :)

My faves I've heard

From my mum: 'Is the bear Catholic?'

From a Czech friend: 'Talk straight, don't beat around the shrubs'

On a first aid course: 'If they're choking you do the hymen manoeuvre'

I still lose my shit over the last one.

That could be worse though Lila. Does the Pope shit in the woods?

Indeed! I just have this mental image of a solemn bear surrounded by wafting frankincense in a gold hat and that's it, I'm off

My mum when describing someone she works with who is very very organised and neat “he’s a bit OCDC”. (Mixing up OCD with AC/DC.

I’ve also heard people mix up “long in the tooth” with “blue in the face” on more than one occasion, instead saying “I can talk until I’m blue in the tooth”!

Had a friend who used to say 'Bleeding like a stuffed pig' and also insisted that the popular style of fringe for boys in the 90's was called 'Beef curtains' !!! Husband frequently asks if 'Dolly Parton shits in the woods?'.

Once Richard of Richard and Judy described someone as "self-defecating" on telly.

Which is almost what my sister and I did from laughing so much.

'Self-defecating' omfg 😂

notsooriginalwerther
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 ;)

But surely she was just thinking of Kettle Chips, the posh brand of sharing crisps? I am fairly sure they are called that because they are deep fried in a big pot aka a kettle?