Is anyone else as obsessed with the mixed metaphor as I am? I find it hilarious how often people get things wrong (myself included). My top two so far are: "When push comes to crunch" and "hard as larry". Anyone got any more?
I always remember a lecturer (in linguistics no less!) coming out, very knowingly, with the phrase "putting up hurdles on thin ice" which fitted the context perfectly but even so...
Mr curly (whose chinese and cant seem to get his head round a lot of these) used to say ' Oh he was laughing off his head' : ( he meant laughing his head off , just doesnt sound right?
Not the same but when my daughter was about 4 and she wanted to say New York...........she ALWAYS said Yew Nork, and the more she tried the more confused she got (still has problems now and shes 14!!!
I work with the disabled and one of the items you can use to help transfer from a chair to a bed is called a banana board (basically a flat board that's banana shaped)
I was talking to a carer last week who said "He may be able to manage if he had a banana boat"
I knew someone who used to say he was "right as rainpence"....! I started saying it because I liked it, and it stuck to the point that I don't even realise I'm saying it now - making me look daft...!