To ask for your misheard common sayings?

[TheGhostsOfMeAndYou]

My husband thinks I am ridiculous that I always thought the saying "another think coming" was "another thing coming"

It's taken me 38 years to realise this and I now feel rather silly.

Same with 'another think / thing coming'. And yet, there are still people that don't understand that it is think!

There was a post which appeared to imply that saying aitch instead of h, for the letter sound, led to 'orse instead of horse or 'air instead of hair, in actual words.

I was saying that wasn't actually the case, that the two are (mostly) not linked.

Not sure why you think you need to remake my point by using a different word and bolding it for me though.

The issue here I think is people conflating two different sayings; "off your own bat" and "they're so generous they'd give the shirt off their own back. "

@CesareBorgia Not a fan of cricket either like grandfather was but I love the Kingscote books. On that note, why oh why is it so hard to find an affordable copy of The Cricket Term??? EBay UK has Autumn Term and End of Term in reasonable prices, but The Cricket Term or The Attic Term? Way out of my budget.

This post is interesting - while it might sound odd to our ears to hear sayings being a tad mangled, words and expressions do evolve (often to suit new time periods and be more relatable).

As it is, a petty annoyance mine is draws instead of drawers, and the all time classic of 'a Chester Draws'. 🤔

Not a saying…. but I’ve noticed a lot of people saying “generally” instead of “genuinely” and it really irritates me!

I think the “few bad apples” is logically sound enough. In a police force - or across the police all together - there will be different barrels. A bad officer in one part of a police force may have nothing to do with another stationed somewhere else. A corrupt detective may well have nothing to do with a corrupt uniformed officer.

The same would apply to any big group of people, like teachers, lawyers, doctors etc.

I agree that it’s wrong if the allusion is to people who are close enough together to spread the rot.

MN needs to have an entire topic devoted to threads specifically about another think coming and whether it’s haitch or aitch, we’ve surely had enough of them over the years.

Did you have an advacado with your expresso?

Or maybe you had a ‘cafe o le’ instead. ( I’ve seen this in a cafe)

I think rest bite is the most terrible of all.

It’s not about misheard sayings, but the best thing I ever read on MN was someone who said she mixed up her words one time and instead of saying “talking at cross purposes” it came out “porking at cross tortoises.”

We say this all the time in my house now.

Going against the grain and going against the flow mean the same thing?

Going against the grain means going in a different direction from the grain of something ( wood, fabric etc have grains)

Going against the grain comes from wood working where the grain might be at an angle to the surface. Planing with grain is easy and gives a good finish, planing against the grain tends to lift and tear the wood.

Not so much a phrase but people using the word weary for wary and vice versa. Drives me mad.

Expresso an old classic...

I get phrases wrong all the time too though. Husband mocks me for it.

He says "that old man was talking a lot of dribble" instead of drivel...he still thinks dribble is acceptable (in the phrase sense!)

Reminds me of the time when l was teaching when l told a difficult y8 class to ‘Sut up and shit down’

Cue 60 seconds silence, then totally hilarity for the remainder of the lesson😩

Nope, it's always been 'another think'.

Another thing is the misheard version.

@Georgeandzippyzoo Acceptable to whom?!! Pedant's Corner may not agree😀

Fuck sake

It should be “fuck’s sake” as a shortening of “for fuck’s sake.”

@Ladyj84

are you fairly new here?? It's been a bun fight for years!!

I was like you, sure it was thing. But I was convinced think was actually correct.

but I can't face another bun fight over it.

@abominablesnowman You are incorrect. It does make sense, and is the original phrase; it is another thing coming

Uncharted territory seems to have been replaced with 'unchartered territory.

Maybe too much below deck!

@abominablesnowman

not really.

child 'I'm going into town'
dad 'if you think that, you've got another thing coming'

(Eg helping him in the garden)

When people use the word 'mortified' to mean extremely angry.

It means embarrassed.

People think they're being so clever using a long word but get it completely wrong 🫠

@Kerantli

but that's correct. It is tenterhooks, not tenderhooks

@jemenfous37 so… another THING is coming is it? What was the first thing, in order for another one to be coming in this ha ha “original” version of yours?

Apparently "think" has been around since 19tn Century, and "thing" definitely from the 80s, maybe earlier... so after 40 years I think both are legitimate!

ARR instead of Oar for the letter R - exception for pirates, obviously

Cupboard instead of press

Naughty when people mean bold, very strange to use a sexy phrase about young children

I ADORE rest bite though, it's so so perfect, a bite of rest. Amazing. Keep using it, let it become the correct term.