Screwed Up Sayings

[GrindingAway]

A guy at work is full of these. His most recent example that I can think of...

"That really throws a wrench in the monkey."

Also from my favorite movie...

"Well sure, man. Look at it... a young trophy wife, in the parlance of our times, you know"

 

[trigger1]

Ive heard people say this one but don't know which is right? Something is "coming down the pike" or "coming down the pipe"

Anybody know? Never seen it in writing

"Coming down the pike". Pike as in turnpike, a large road.

coming down the pike - Idioms - by the Free Dictionary, Thesaurus and Encyclopedia.

 

[linkshero]

This reminds me...Does Steve Deace pronounce "scenario" the correct way? I'm not an expert by any means, but it's like nails on a chalk board every time he says it.

He drives me crazy with interesting.
Even though it's spelled 'in ter est ing', it's always [in-ter-uh-sting, -truh-sting, or -tuh-res-ting]

I was taught at ISU that it is always in-truh-sting.

 

[kilgore_trout]

this is the most idiomatic thread ever...

 

[Cyclones_R_GR8]

I can't imagine the furor that would have been caused on this site if I had said something like "Sweating like a Russian race horse"

 

[CYEATHAWK]

we caught a buddy talking about his girlfriend(now wife) getting a "pack smear to get the pill".

What the heck is a "pack smear"

Screwed up sayings..... from back in the juvenile era, and keeping in line with your post, how about "you ain't worth the pap in my smear". Or, like you buddy saying "pack"...how about "Papst".:biglaugh: Funny stuff.

 

[majorcyfan]

I hear "tough road to hoe" all the time.

Actually it correct to say: It's a tough row to hoe.

We all hear things differently sometimes, but does a bear crap in the woods?

 

[isukendall]

This one drives me nuts with my family, and I realize I risk persecution from the board for this one:

I grew up in Nebraska. My grandparents, mother, and brother still (who is 20 but still lives back home) refers to "dinner" as the lunch meal. Drives me crazy. When I go home, Mom asks me if I'm going to be home for "dinner". To her means noon, to me means evening.

To me, noon is "lunch" and evening is "dinner" or "supper". To her noon is "dinner" and evening is "supper".

My point is, if you're taking a date to "dinner", it's an evening date. Therefore, "dinner" is not at noon. My fam has a hard time with this and it's very confusing. Anyone else have problems with this, or is it a central NE thing? (opening myself up to many NE jokes).....

 

[Cyberclone]

One I used to hear alot as a kid ,

"Next thing you know, You don't know nothing!"

 

[davidrcr24]

When I am asked to sign something

"Can I get your John Henry?"

its not john henry... its herbie hancock

 

[cyclones500]

I had a guy at work who uses to say "it's the difference between light and day".

I've never heard that one, perhaps amazingly enough. Made me chuckle. :biggrin:

(All of you may now add "perhaps amazingly enough" to your screwed-up sayings list)

 

[cyclones500]

My favorite deliberate mess-up of an idiom came about a decade ago by a co-worker/friend — and he said it out of the blue:

"The lights weren't on, but nobody wasn't home."

I'm still not sure if it would have the same meaning as the Correct Saying, or the opposite.

Either way, it doesn't matter.:yes: I still laugh when I think about him saying it.

 

[Dino]

I had a guy at work who uses to say "it's the difference between light and day".

People who say "uses to say" instead of used to say... (just teasing, I know that was a typo:wink

Anyone ever heard anyone say "no, but yeah...?" that one drives me crazy.

Also "mute point" bothers me a lot.

One I used to say until I was corrected was "All the sudden" Whoops.

"pre-madonna" (spelling screw-up)

Also there was an awesome post on the hawk board a few years ago from some hawk poster who called people "Want-of-bees" instead off wannabes. He got ridiculed pretty harshly and I think still gets it from time to time for that.

 

[Dino]

A few more...

"Taken for granite"

"Escape Goat"

"Baited breath"

Things like "ATM Machine" PIN Number" and "MAC Conference"

And people misusing the word "literally." Whenever I hear someone misuse that word it literally makes my head explode!

 

[ketchupnmustard]

"for all intensive purposes."

 

[KingClone]

This one drives me nuts with my family, and I realize I risk persecution from the board for this one:

I grew up in Nebraska. My grandparents, mother, and brother still (who is 20 but still lives back home) refers to "dinner" as the lunch meal. Drives me crazy. When I go home, Mom asks me if I'm going to be home for "dinner". To her means noon, to me means evening.

To me, noon is "lunch" and evening is "dinner" or "supper". To her noon is "dinner" and evening is "supper".

My point is, if you're taking a date to "dinner", it's an evening date. Therefore, "dinner" is not at noon. My fam has a hard time with this and it's very confusing. Anyone else have problems with this, or is it a central NE thing? (opening myself up to many NE jokes).....

Dinner is the main meal, whether at noon(lunch) or in the evening(supper).

In my family, Sunday Dinner is the noon meal but dinner on other days are served in the evening.

 

[stvfarmboy]

This one drives me nuts with my family, and I realize I risk persecution from the board for this one:

I grew up in Nebraska. My grandparents, mother, and brother still (who is 20 but still lives back home) refers to "dinner" as the lunch meal. Drives me crazy. When I go home, Mom asks me if I'm going to be home for "dinner". To her means noon, to me means evening.

To me, noon is "lunch" and evening is "dinner" or "supper". To her noon is "dinner" and evening is "supper".

My point is, if you're taking a date to "dinner", it's an evening date. Therefore, "dinner" is not at noon. My fam has a hard time with this and it's very confusing. Anyone else have problems with this, or is it a central NE thing? (opening myself up to many NE jokes).....

I think this is a rural vs. urban thing. I grew up in SW Iowa and it was dinner and supper. Lunch was a mid-morning and mid-afternoon break for when working in the field.

 

[mmiille]

I can't imagine the furor that would have been caused on this site if I had said something like "Sweating like a Russian race horse"

I think its peeing like a race horse.

Does a racehorse really pee like a racehorse? - By David Sessions - Slate Magazine

Sweating like a ***** in church.

 

[CyOps]

co-worker talking about the department manager's kid: "He doesn't have sense enough to pack sand up a cat's *****."

me: "That doesn't sound right"

 

[Marti4Cy]

The John Henry one is a huge pet peeve of mine, I just corrected my dental hygenist on that one last week. Good thing she was done with my cleaning.

Another one that I haven't seen mentioned, and there is some controversy about it.

"If you think that, then you have another thing coming. The correct saying is "If you think that, then you have another think coming"