Incorrect idioms.

[Pancake]

Just been reminded of a chap I used to work with that used to try and use idioms and saying in general conversation but always got them wrong:

 

"My PC has given up the goat"

 

"Well, lets make way while the sun shines"

 

Always used to crack me up.

 

Anyone got any others from foolish work mates?

Edited 23 October, 2008 by Pancake

[Master Bates]

"Another day another bit of money"

 

"Pull yer pants up now Bates"

[JohnnyFartPants]

I once saw a totally thick gimp on that TV programme called The Villa that was boasting of a girl that wanted to be Split Roasted by him and his mate.

[CabbageFace]

Same ship different bay.

[Jillyanne]

A modreator on a forum I use says this:-

 

'Anyone got any others form foolish work mates?'

[Johnny Shearer]

A modreator on a forum I use says this:-

 

'Anyone got any others form foolish work mates?'

 

Are you Bath Saint in disguise?

[bridge too far]

A modreator on a forum I use says this:-

 

'Anyone got any others form foolish work mates?'

 

..

[INFLUENCED.COM]

Couple of years ago my Brother when looking at something on the pc said "look at her camel hoof"

[Draino76]

Some **** in my office always uses 'open up a can of beans'.

[JohnnyFartPants]

Some **** in my office always uses 'open up a can of beans'.

 

How are your nuts?

[Crouchie's Lawyer]

How are your nuts?

 

I was going to ask the same thing!

 

Was it fun ripping the plaster off?

[Hatch]

My favourite from an old work mate and one that I now use myself.

 

'He is a nasty piece of cake'

 

Cracks me up just thinking about it.

[Hatch]

and another thing that I was thinking about the other day.

 

I am sure the old and correct term was 'Splitting Image' and that has now become 'Spitting Image'

 

Can anyone confirm this.

[Pancake]

and another thing that I was thinking about the other day.

 

I am sure the old and correct term was 'Splitting Image' and that has now become 'Spitting Image'

 

Can anyone confirm this.

Dear Word Detective: I'm in the midst of an argument with a friend over the expression "spittin' image," meaning look-alike. He insists that the expression is "splitting image." Which of us is correct? What is the origin of this expression? -- Linda, via the internet.

 

You are correct, although your friend's attempt to make "spittin' image" make more sense as "splitting image" (as if one person had split into two) merits an honorable mention. Your friend's version, incidentally, is a good example of a process known as "folk etymology," whereby an unfamiliar or seemingly nonsensical phrase, often very old, is altered slightly to make it more understandable in modern terms.

But the phrase is definitely "spitting image" or "spittin' image," meaning "exact likeness" and it's based on an earlier form, "spit and image," which first appeared around 1859 Just where the phrase came from and exactly what it means, however, is hotly debated in etymological circles.

Most authorities accept the "spit" element of the phrase at face value, and maintain that it is a remarkably inelegant metaphor for similarity: "just as if one person were spit out of another's mouth." A similar saying in French, "C'est son pere tout crache" ("He is his father's spit and image"), lends support to this theory, as do earlier English sayings with the same meaning, such as "the very spit of," which appeared around 1825.

 

The late poet and etymologist John Ciardi, however, maintained that "black magic" lay at the root of the phrase. Armed with a sample of someone's saliva ("spit") and a doll made to resemble the person ("image"), goes the theory, a sorcerer could cast all sorts of evil spells on the hapless victim.

 

Yet another theory regards "spit" as a shortened form of "spirit," but there is no real evidence for this, and it sounds to me like another "folk etymology" effort to make a very weird phrase slightly less weird.

[Saint Mikey]

My mate said the other day: 'That's a stone-cold penalty!' LOL.

[Guest Dark Sotonic Mills]

and another thing that I was thinking about the other day.

 

I am sure the old and correct term was 'Splitting Image' and that has now become 'Spitting Image'

 

Can anyone confirm this.

 

Donkeys Years is another one like that, it started as "Donkeys' ears".

[Weston Super Saint]

I like the OS with their 'flag kicks'

[Draino76]

Nuts ok, an occasional sharp pain here and there when they swing about. Plasters come off easy in the bath.

[Mao Cap]

A friend of my Mum's used to say that she trusted someone "explicitly"

[Hatch]

my wife says 'deaf as a doughnut'

[Weston Super Saint]

my wife says 'deaf as a doughnut'

 

Pardon?

[Atticus Finch of Maycomb]

Couple of years ago my Brother when looking at something on the pc said "look at her camel hoof"

 

 

was he looking at this?

[Scudamore]

A friend of my Mum's used to say that she trusted someone "explicitly"

 

Hope you smashed her...

[saint boggy]

i've noticed a few people recently using the phrase "if you think that's gonna happen, you've got another thing coming"........i am right in thinking that it should be 'think' not 'thing', aren't i??

[Crouchie's Lawyer]

i've noticed a few people recently using the phrase "if you think that's gonna happen, you've got another thing coming"........i am right in thinking that it should be 'think' not 'thing', aren't i??

 

Hmm thats a good one. I can see both sides.

 

Another thing coming as in, if you think a is gonna happen you have another thing coming ie b.

 

Although with think...

 

Another think is coming as in, whats coming is not what you expect, which will cause you to think again.

 

I would personally say it makes more sense with thing rather than think but I can see it both ways.

[Wiltshire Saint]

It makes no sense with "think". You're both being daft.

[saint boggy]

It makes no sense with "think". You're both being daft.

well i personally think it's 'think'.

 

evening sweetheart, btw xx:D

[Mao Cap]

Hope you smashed her...

 

Well I was about 7 at the time.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

But yes, yes I did.

[EastleighSoulBoy]

well i personally think it's 'think'.

 

evening sweetheart, btw xx:D

 

Think, people who use 'thing' irritate me!

[notnowcato]

A colleague of mine stated during a meeting "My reputation exceeds me..."

 

It did.

[notnowcato]

A modreator on a forum I use says this:-

 

'Anyone got any others form foolish work mates?'

 

:D

[Pancake]

"...just desserts..." makes me laugh too.

[Pancake]

It makes no sense with "think". You're both being daft.

 

I would have expected better from a librarian to be honest.

 

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/have_another_think_coming

[Crouchie's Lawyer]

It makes no sense with "think". You're both being daft.

 

I would have expected better from a librarian to be honest.

 

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/have_another_think_coming

 

In your face tiny man