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pokerfan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-28-09 02:33 PM Original message |
Your favorite misquoted idioms? |
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Spider Jerusalem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-28-09 02:36 PM Response to Original message |
1. Evidence that people have trouble with homonyms. |
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pokerfan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-28-09 02:41 PM Response to Reply #1 |
3. What's wrong with that? |
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MineralMan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-28-09 02:42 PM Response to Reply #1 |
4. And they have even more trouble with Houinyms, if I remember |
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surrealAmerican (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-29-09 04:15 PM Response to Reply #4 |
31. They weren't any trouble; ... |
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DeepBlueC (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-28-09 06:06 PM Response to Reply #1 |
17. that one really gets under my skin nt |
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MineralMan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-28-09 02:40 PM Response to Original message |
2. I can't phantom it. |
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Sanity Claws (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-28-09 02:43 PM Response to Original message |
5. Got her dandruff up |
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ashling (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-28-09 07:55 PM Response to Reply #5 |
21. I use Tegrin for that |
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pokerfan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-28-09 02:51 PM Response to Original message |
6. Prostate with grief |
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Moondog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-28-09 03:40 PM Response to Reply #6 |
7. Enlarged prostrate, or, had his prostrate removed. n/t |
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ashling (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-28-09 04:35 PM Response to Original message |
8. apparently California finally has a budget for this physical year |
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hatredisnotavalue (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-28-09 05:26 PM Response to Reply #8 |
12. YES!!! |
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ashling (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-28-09 07:50 PM Response to Reply #12 |
20. Did you ever ask any of them if they knew the difference |
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Kali (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-28-09 04:40 PM Response to Original message |
9. cut off your nose |
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madinmaryland (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-28-09 05:13 PM Response to Original message |
10. "Casting asparagus" and "it's a doggie dog world" |
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sarge43 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-28-09 05:13 PM Response to Original message |
11. The exception proves the rule. n/t |
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trackfan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-28-09 05:46 PM Response to Original message |
13. Nip it in the butt. n/t |
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GreenPartyVoter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-28-09 06:00 PM Response to Original message |
14. Not an idiom, but I was taking attendance in the preschool/K Sunday School class this week and |
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pokerfan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-28-09 06:03 PM Response to Original message |
15. reap what you sew |
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Petrushka (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-28-09 09:49 PM Response to Reply #15 |
26. rip what you sew |
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mzteris (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-28-09 06:04 PM Response to Original message |
16. i could care less |
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Bucky (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-28-09 08:12 PM Response to Reply #16 |
23. Argh! I hate that one. Do people even think about what they're saying? |
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Terry in Austin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-29-09 05:36 PM Response to Reply #23 |
35. Scoop over |
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pokerfan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-28-09 06:14 PM Response to Original message |
18. statue of limitations |
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KamaAina (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-28-09 06:27 PM Response to Original message |
19. A stitch in time saves nine |
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GreenPartyVoter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-29-09 04:03 PM Response to Reply #19 |
28. I always thought it was nine, and that it means better to fix a small rip now than |
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Bucky (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-28-09 08:10 PM Response to Original message |
22. People who have a "sneaking" suspicion instead of a sinking one. |
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ShenandoahAspen (367 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-28-09 09:37 PM Response to Original message |
24. ship on his/her shoulder. nt |
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PassingFair (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-28-09 09:46 PM Response to Original message |
25. What, pacifically, is your problem? |
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mzteris (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-29-09 02:44 PM Response to Original message |
27. "on the lamb" |
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Terry in Austin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-29-09 04:04 PM Response to Original message |
29. Respectively submitted |
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Arkansas Granny (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-29-09 04:11 PM Response to Original message |
30. I get all flustrated about that. |
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woo me with science (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-29-09 04:30 PM Response to Original message |
32. Not an idiom, but I get tired of hearing of the "tenants" of this or that belief system. |
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gmoney (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-29-09 04:43 PM Response to Original message |
33. Not an idiom, but gave me a laugh. |
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Pied Piper (363 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-29-09 05:34 PM Response to Original message |
34. The first one on your list |
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jkirch (118 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-29-09 07:45 PM Response to Original message |
36. Cut the mustard. nt |
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Xipe Totec (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-29-09 07:48 PM Response to Original message |
37. I could care less n/t |
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Odin2005 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-29-09 10:14 PM Response to Original message |
38. Moot and mute are pronounced differently |
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