Misquoted sayings

[sg]

I've just had an email from a senior partner that quotes the phrase 'False of habit'.
I've never heard that one before. Ones you hear often are Damp Squib, or Doggy Dog World.
Are there any others you have heard people say?

[seadogg]

They make 'em anywhere these days maggie.

[gness]

"A phrase he`s going through".

[MarkRae]

I've heard people say they're spitting feathers (really thirsty) when they mean they're spitting blood (really angry).

"Arguably" is often used in place of "in my opinion".

[rowanwitch]

Apparently they had a sheepstake at a friends office

[MarkRae]

"You've got another thing coming!" instead of think... :-)

[douglas9401]

Really pucker. :)

[Mamyalynne]

Go on then Doug.

[paddywak]

I remember a few years ago overhearing a group of girls discussing all the reports about various foods being bad for you and one young girl in all seriousness said "It's not the food that's bad it's all the orgasms they have in them nowadays.

[rojash]

Well, I'm not sure I'd want to eat anything that had had orgasms in it.

[Frank97]

''Does the pope sh!t in the woods'' is one I quite like and do on occasion use.

[naomi24]

Nothing wrong with a 'Damp Squib'.

http://idioms.thefree...nary.com/a+damp+squib

[SueMoneyRowley]

A friend of mine always talks about going off on a tandem instead of a tangent!

[Vicasso]

The carrot at the end of the tunnel

[AB Editor]

"In one fowl swoop."

Very good!

[B00]

at this 'pacific' point in time.

[marval]

The 14th century phrase "On tenter hooks" which derives from a wooden frame that hung wet clothes out to dry is often mistaken as "on tender hooks."

[bert_h]

"reigns of power" (but it has to be written down to see that the user has got it wrong).

My favourite was a company progress report which commented that a recent contract "augers well for our finances". When I joked that this looked as though it was going to make a big hole in them instead, nobody understood, and I had to explain (augur = forecast, auger = large boring tool).

[woofgang]

the one that really annoys me (I know picky picky) is "its a mind field"

[jd_here]

And how many men talk of their Protrate?