Incorrectly used sayings and phrases (malapropisims and related)

I think my friend may have taken this from boards but it gave me a giggle!

"don't mis-underestimate yourself"
the traffic was always "chop the block"
"for all intensive purposes"
'this place is like a pig style'
Play it by year
"catch 20/20" situations...
I Feckin' toad a so.
that's a pigment of your imagination
Nip it in the butt
Sangwitch
fair juice'
mokatrol
flustrated"
Vi-sa versa'
choke on some crips
I always sometimes go to mcdonalds once a week.
Don't upset the apple tart
'We'll burn that bridge when we come to it+
tilted windows
a packa a crip'
escape goat




Personally in my house we always ate sangwitches and changed the Tv with the mokatrol!!

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Smokes and daggers

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Pass the book.

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It's a phrase he's going through!

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Laxidaisical. (Not a saying or phrase but )

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Long term economic value?

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I heard the following 2 just yesterday in the same sentence

Delmonte (Diamante)

Sequence (Sequinned)

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pacific - specific ... i cringe every time i hear it!

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JJ1982 said:

choke on some crips

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The 'Bloods' might...

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Irregardles! meaning regardless.ahhhhhhhhhhh
Telefoam...telephone
I eat meant to be ,I ate, hate hate hate that one!!

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I've a friend who says 'sure it's six and a half dozen'

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thedaras said:

Irregardles! meaning regardless.ahhhhhhhhhhh
Telefoam...telephone
I eat meant to be ,I ate, hate hate hate that one!!

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Ha ha, have never heard this!!

I worked with a woman once who did her sums on a carculator

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thedaras said:

Irregardles! meaning regardless
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Irregardless is now an adjective according to the Compact Oxford English Dictionary - http://www.askoxford.com/results/?v...gardless&branch=13842570&textsearchtype=exact

All the Oxford dons getting locked on stag and hen week-ends in Dublin has had an effect.

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A guy I know used the phrase "Chewing the Cod". I feel like slapping him every time he does.

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The mother in law frequently makes reference to bold children as impotent little brats!

Have tried to explain that it's impudent but to no avail!

A neighbour of mine looked up to the sky one time as she was talking and said 'Oh look there's a herring" (not a saying I know but I laughed my head off)

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Sounds very familiar ney. Creepy.

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Caveat said:

Sounds very familiar ney. Creepy.

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Mrs O'Brien is that you?

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Yes! - imagine posting about me on this site

You impotent little brat.

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"Supposably" is one that hurts my ears.

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JJ1982 said:

I think my friend may have taken this from boards but it gave me a giggle!

fair juice


choke on some crips


We'll burn that bridge when we come to it

Personally in my house we always ate sangwitches and changed the Tv with the mokatrol!!

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What should be used in the case of the 3 above.

We eat 'hang sangwighes' in our house and change the TV with the clicker (it doesn't actually click).