The truth is in the pudding

[LaBelleSausage]

AIBU to want to scream every time I see or hear someone say “The truth is in the pudding”

It’s not bloody truth! The pudding isn’t some sort of weird fortune cookie.

It’s proof

“The proof of the pudding is in the eating”

I’ll even allow “The proof is in the pudding”, but I refuse to accept that there’s some steamed sponge of sincerity doing the rounds.

My bugbears:

'Bare'/bear with me

Can't be 'asked'/arsed

'Pacifically' (pronunciation)/specifically

weekendatlastyay you may, although I want a mention! 😁

I’m rather fond of my username but if I ever change it, it will be to ‘the steamed sponge of sincerity’. Or ‘the damp squid’ 🦑

BlackStar7 I don’t know what tonsay. Can you abandon the family home and start again somewhere?

DS doesn’t really talk yet, but if one of his first words is marshmEllow then I’ll probably leave him on a hillside

I hate on route...

Most people say marshmellow. It’s annoying.
Supposably.
Ekcetera.

How are you supposed to say marshmellow?

Someone on TV this week was talking about "taking it to the tenth degree" 

Nothisispatrick how it looks, marshmallow with an A

So many brilliant ones on this thread. I don’t know whether to laugh or cry!

@Nothisispatrick as it's spelt - marshmAllow.

Though I was brought up knowing it as marsmellow which feels more normal to say.

"steamed sponge of sincerity"

Love it

Nugget instead of nougat.
Revenge is a fish best served cold (a friend of mine says that one)
Escape Goat.

Escape Goat

:D :D
Fuming, OP. FUMING.

Here’s a whole dictionary of phrases www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/damp-squib.html

There’s even a section for common mistakes
www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/phrases-that-people-get-wrong.html

Wrong stick for wrong end of the stick. I suppose that one does make some sort of sense though; it could mean wronger than wrong.

Marshmello is a music producer who wears s bucket on his head, when my DC's say it instead of marshmallow, I turn to look for him dramatically.

File says 'Oh, it must be nine on a hundred degrees out there' and it makes my eye twitch.

werefox you put me in mind of a famous pp who was 'fumming'

Ah I love a muddled phrase. The best one I've heard is:

"We'll burn that bridge when we get to it"

"The exception proves the rule" - nothing wrong with how people say it, but it's the number of people who clearly think it's the modern meaning of "prove" (ie "this doesn't fit the rule therefore the rule must be right" rather than "the exception tests whether the rule is right"). "Proof of the pudding" is the same old use too, although still makes sense with the new use.

"We'll burn that bridge when we get to it" reminds me of John Major's "when your back's to the wall, it's time to turn round and fight".

We will burn that bridge when we get to it.

That is absolutely fantastic!

They should put people in the stocks in the town centre if they use "brought" instead of "bought", until they learn the difference.

I had no idea it was marshmallow not marshmellow! I’ve never heard anyone pronounce it with the A.