The proof is not in the jeffing pudding!

[cupidsabsolutepsyche]

If it was we'd all be looking in our pudding bowls with magnifying glasses.

I think this is the phrase, wrongly used, that irritates me the most.

Grrrr on your behalf OP

Where is the proof then?

How's it wrongly used? (Need examples in order to judge.) Prepares to hoik up pants

Drives me nuts too, it is indeed in the eating. This usually pops into my head and out of my mouth at such times.

'The proof of the pudding is in the eating'

YANBU.

Oh - you weren't asking whether you were U, but you're not.

Oh yeah.

Can I have some, anyway? Pudding?

Ah - OK.

Yes, YANBU.

Springforward - what was that army link all about?

It's the only example of "proving/ proof" in the sense of testing that I can ever think of when I hear that phrase, TBH!

Ah, missed that bit!

I want to see that link Springforward but my laptop doesn't seem to like it.

The proof of the pudding is in the eating - I'll do all the pudding-eating to test it if need be!

comfortmewithapples - here, have some pudding too