I was thinking about misused words and phrases after reading an on-line post earlier. Some of these make me chuckle (or cringe)

Tow the Line (Toe)
For all Intensive Purposes (Intents and Purposes)
On Tender Hooks (Tenter)
Chomping at the Bit (Champing)

Anything with OF instead of HAVE

Share a few....

This thread will turn out to be a damp squid

The worlds your Lobster (Oyster)

Misused word....
Scenario.....it's a theoretical or possible event or situation......not something that is going to/has happened.

Dull as dishwater

Nip it in the Butt very un-PC

Mrs T was once talking about “coastal corrosion”.

I could (couldn't) care less

So you care to some degree?

"Literally"

From what I found when I did a spot of rearch a while back is that the original and strict definition of "literally" was to only emphasize that something is true in the most precise and direct sense - so without exaggeration. So if somebody said, "I literally died laughing" - it means you had to go into resus and have someone bring you back to life!

Yet due to so many people not understanding the true definition, dictionaries over time changed its meaning, to also mean mean to exaggerate something for comedy effect. I still class it as misused though.

I don't want no ........

Where there's a will there's a relative

Bosscat wrote: ↑

Sun Dec 08, 2024 2:03 pm

The worlds your Lobster (Oyster)

Ah yes Arthur Daly? Or is it Daley? Who also said in response to do yiu enjoy flying - I prefer to have my feet on Terra Cotta!!!

Pre-Madonna

One of Mrs Croydon's favourites - "You'd forget your head if it was(wasn't) screwed on"

No, if my head was screwed on it would be quite secure in its current position.

I'm trying to "un Cockney" her on a daily basis but it's a slow process

Saying fewer when you meant to say less.

In Enola Gay's Britain people who say or write "should/could/would of" instead of "should/could/would have" will be the second group to be up against the wall after people who dawdle at cashpoints.

People who say 'pre-Madonna' will be buried up to their necks in boiling slurry, standing on the shoulders of those who say 'mute point'.

Damp squid

Saying Pacific instead of specific.

You are behaving like you’re in a kindergarden.

He’s catched it everytime.

Down the Miggle.

The ball has gone in the nekkles

I’m dying for a brew - get the kekkle on.

Someone phone an ambliance.

Skellington.

Just a few and most of these heard on Sunday League football pitches in East Lancs.

The whole gambit (gamut)

And while we're on the subject, Chrimbo and Bommie Night can get in the same bin as 'platty joobs'.

A Chimley ... its a ****ing Chimney you morons

Stayingup wrote: ↑

Sun Dec 08, 2024 3:07 pm

Ah yes Arthur Daly? Or is it Daley? Who also said in response to do yiu enjoy flying - I prefer to have my feet on Terra Cotta!!!

Also done by Paul Merson on " Soccer Saturday " ... his wasn't scripted, though !

Enola Gay wrote: ↑

Sun Dec 08, 2024 4:23 pm

And while we're on the subject, Chrimbo and Bommie Night can get in the same bin as 'platty joobs'.

There's a special place in hell reserved for people who say " Chrimbo " !

Mute point.........Moot point from Anglo Saxon meeting place called a Moot Hall.
One that gets me is chimbly instead of chimley.

I’ve noticed that a lot of people use the word draw when they mean drawer. ‘ I’ve put the knife back in the draw’

Aloud gets misused too. ‘Am I aloud to post this’

beeholeclaret wrote: ↑

Sun Dec 08, 2024 4:20 pm

Down the Miggle.

Sorry beeholeclaret,but I deliberately use a variation of this when I have picked up a bargain from
" The Miggle of Liggle "

Teasdale in.

People who refer to " Sideboards " instead of " Sideburns " ...

Volvoclaret wrote: ↑

Sun Dec 08, 2024 4:34 pm

One that gets me is chimbly instead of chimley.

Both wrong. It’s chimney.

Do you NOT want a brew!

chekhov wrote: ↑

Sun Dec 08, 2024 4:57 pm

Both wrong. It’s chimney.

I think Volvo was making a comment on my earlier post

Enola Gay wrote: ↑

Sun Dec 08, 2024 4:08 pm

In Enola Gay's Britain people who say or write "should/could/would of" instead of "should/could/would have" will be the second group to be up against the wall after people who dawdle at cashpoints.

People who say 'pre-Madonna' will be buried up to their necks in boiling slurry, standing on the shoulders of those who say 'mute point'.

Can I add people who fill up at petrol stations, then spend 10 minutes shopping before paying, then return to their car, reapply their make-up and reply to three text messages before setting off ... all while people are waiting behind them !

Bosscat wrote: ↑

Sun Dec 08, 2024 4:29 pm

A Chimley ... its a ****ing Chimney you morons

As a 9yo I was in a class of about 30, in Richmond NYorks, chimney came up in a spelling test and I was the only one to get it correct. An out of towner whilst all the locals wrote chimley.

A.Claret.Fan wrote: ↑

Sun Dec 08, 2024 4:59 pm

Do you NOT want a brew!

Mrs T asked me an hour ago, “Don’t you want me not to iron your pyjamas”? Reply “no”.
So only two negatives to many!!

Croydon Claret wrote: ↑

Sun Dec 08, 2024 3:50 pm

One of Mrs Croydon's favourites - "You'd forget your head if it was(wasn't) screwed on" .. No, if my head was screwed on it would be quite secure in its current position. I'm trying to "un Cockney" her on a daily basis but it's a slow process

I've been trying to " de-Burnley " the worst excesses of Mrs Clarets4me's accent for decades, old friend ! I've had limited success, we haven't had an " I'm agate " for nearly 20 years, but " crammed " and " oyned " still make occasional appearances !! Hope you're well !

Bosscat wrote: ↑

Sun Dec 08, 2024 5:01 pm

I think Volvo was making a comment on my earlier post

Oh I get it. Me trying to be amusing and looking like an idiot, same old story.

Most things football pundits say.

Clarets4me wrote: ↑

Sun Dec 08, 2024 4:31 pm

Also done by Paul Merson on " Soccer Saturday " ... his wasn't scripted, though !

They both nicked it (quite appropriate in Arthur’s Daley’s case) from Hilda Ogden - Coronation St.

Fell swoop (foul)

Cirrus_Minor wrote: ↑

Sun Dec 08, 2024 5:42 pm

Fell swoop (foul)

Know it's knot

Can you borrow me some money.

Clarets4me wrote: ↑

Sun Dec 08, 2024 5:11 pm

I've been trying to " de-Burnley " the worst excesses of Mrs Clarets4me's accent for decades, old friend ! I've had limited success, we haven't had an " I'm agate " for nearly 20 years, but " crammed " and " oyned " still make occasional appearances !! Hope you're well !

Like me, I fear that you may just have to accept that this is your lot

Whilst we're still vaguely in the London area it doesn't seem quite correct that I'm trying to filter out her heritage, or accept that it's me who should change , but that doesn't stop me from trying.

She's well aware of the healing properties of steak pudding, chips, and gravy though so it seems that the battle is partly won

I'm doing ok. Been retired a month now and it's requiring a little mental adjustment but I'm getting there.

Hope you're all doing ok too

Parent to a 10 year old,
' If you behave like a child then I will treat you like a child'.

We was…

Escape goat

JohnMac wrote: ↑

Sun Dec 08, 2024 1:56 pm

I was thinking about misused words and phrases after reading an on-line post earlier. Some of these make me chuckle (or cringe)

Tow the Line (Toe)
For all Intensive Purposes (Intents and Purposes)
On Tender Hooks (Tenter)
Chomping at the Bit (Champing)

Anything with OF instead of HAVE

Share a few....

You have been listening to 5Live DriveTime!

Witherspoons (Wetherspoons)
Umberella. (Umbrella)
Arthuritus. (Arthritis)
Prostrate. (Prostate)

durhamclaret wrote: ↑

Sun Dec 08, 2024 6:57 pm

Prostrate. (Prostate)

Or in reverse he was lying Prostate (Prostrate) on the ground