In the vein of "Chester draws"

[ShatnersWoodwind]

On a local selling page:

"Chabby Chique bedside tables".

😂

Oh, and click. Drove me mad.

I work with some intelligent people but loads of them write "reign it in" in reports rather than "rein it in".

Bare with me

I can't bare it

You will be mist. At rest with the angles.

Found in Thailand

I receive lots of reports from 111. Someone had an ‘erotic aneurysm’,sounds much more fun than an aortic aneurysm.

That's brilliant! 😂

Mia Culper seen on Reddit

An elderly client during the pandemic was bemoaning “this bloody Colditz virus will
get us all”

I am on holiday at the moment. We are having 'freshly quizzed orange juice' for breakfast. I feel bad for the oranges, but after everything they have been through I feel I should at least enjoy the output of the quizzing. We have been wondering what they have been quizzed about. Was it tipping point standard? Mastermind? Or something of a little more investigative nature? I hope there were no lie detectors....poor little oranges....

They had the squeeze put on them!

I see ‘per say’ on here a lot instead of per se.

I’ve been asked to ‘jus’ something up…
🤦🏽‍♀️
zhuzh!

I do the referencing on collaborative reports. One of the contributors handily flagged up something was a “power phase” rather than a direct quote.

took me a while to realise they meant it had been paraphrased 🤣

To be fair me and my DF called it Arthuritis for years but his name was Arthur

Nooo

I’ve been trying to work this out, what is a county lion please?

Involved in County Lines criminal activity,
I presume!

Wandering instead of wondering!

Or, alternatively, I hate my job so am looking for a new roll!

@LaMarschallin @DoloresODonovan


TOE THE LINE

The space between the planks of a ship’s deck were packed with a material called oakum and sealed with tar creating long, straight lines roughly six inches apart. When the crew was asked to fall in they used the gaps as a marker with their toes touching the line. Also young crew members (ship’s boys or young officers) who were deemed in need of punishing for minor offences were made to stand with their toes touching the line, without talking or moving, for hours at a time in all weathers. Hence the term ‘toe the line’, meaning to do as one is told or behave as expected.


TOE THE LINE

The space between the planks of a ship’s deck were packed with a material called oakum and sealed with tar creating long, straight lines roughly six inches apart. When the crew was asked to fall in they used the gaps as a marker with their toes touching the line. Also young crew members (ship’s boys or young officers) who were deemed in need of punishing for minor offences were made to stand with their toes touching the line, without talking or moving, for hours at a time in all weathers. Hence the term ‘toe the line’, meaning to do as one is told or behave as expected.

Ilovemyshed

Thanks for the explanation.

I did actually know that, hence mentioning the often used "tow the line".
However, DoloresODonovan mentioned a use of "tow the line" which - while incorrect in the context of "toe the line" that I was using - was still interesting.

I'm sure people who haven't come across the explanation of "toe the line" that you've given will find it of interest.

ETA: From their post it seems ErrolTheDragon is aware of the meaning of "toe the line" as well.
You probably don't need to keep explaining it on a thread for actual pedants.
Well done on knowing the etymology anyway.

Saw a horse for sale advertised as "well bread and red chested".

In my teens I was in a relationship with a guy who was not that bright. A few examples:
We were at the zoo he asked me what Gee Raffies were. I was wtf mate no idea. Insisted we go to the Gee Raffies were as he’d read it on the map so all right lets follow him to the enclosure. Dawned on me when we turned to the enclosure and the long orange and black neck appeared from behind a tree. He was confused why there were Draffs there, where were the Gee Raffies. I actually asked him to spell Giraffes and he started with D-R-A-F and I had to stop him.

Also got in an argument with his entire family, including his sil who was working in a school as a TA , that their new car was not pronounced Ren-Alt. I really shouldn’t have pushed it tbh but when I asked them why people say Ren-o it was because that’s just a nickname but the full name of the car is indeed Ren-alt and they were laughing at me like I was the silly one.

On here I’ve had a genuine autocorrect to mould wine and everyone on the thread was like yeah yeah “autocorrect” but then a few weeks ago I got the same message from a friend so it must be the language settings on our phones (we are both expats in same country). But now I always think of mould wine every Christmas.