| Sayings People Get Wrong? on 07:27 - Jun 3 with 841 views | NthQldITFC |
| Sayings People Get Wrong? on 23:23 - Jun 2 by mrfixit426 |
This one really winds me up! |
Most of these really 'get up my goat', but at the same time I recognise with an inner grin, that it's my problem, not the speaker/writer. |  |
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| Sayings People Get Wrong? on 07:31 - Jun 3 with 832 views | BlueBoots |
| Sayings People Get Wrong? on 23:33 - Jun 2 by J2BLUE |
Pre Madonna is my favourite. |
That's a mute point I think |  |
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| Sayings People Get Wrong? on 07:46 - Jun 3 with 809 views | cressi |
At the bingo number 69
A meal for two |  | | |
| Sayings People Get Wrong? on 07:59 - Jun 3 with 794 views | Crawfordsboot |
“You can’t underestimate” when really they mean the opposite! |  | | |
| Sayings People Get Wrong? on 08:01 - Jun 3 with 791 views | BanksterDebtSlave |
Round the houses. |  |
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| Sayings People Get Wrong? on 08:21 - Jun 3 with 751 views | NthQldITFC |
| Sayings People Get Wrong? on 06:41 - Jun 3 by Keno |
Escape Goat |
I think this one is a bit harsh.
People are usually actually referring to an eScapegoat, which is just a normal scapegoat fitted with an electric motor, which allows you to blame someone else, uphill, that little bit faster. | |
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| Sayings People Get Wrong? on 08:22 - Jun 3 with 752 views | Meadowlark |
One of our esteemed local radio presenters often used to say "lets "focus in" on....." whatever the talking point of the day was.
You don't focus in! Maybe you zoom in, but you just focus. Perhaps he meant focus on? |  | | |
| Sayings People Get Wrong? on 08:22 - Jun 3 with 750 views | DJR |
unchartered waters |  | | |
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| Sayings People Get Wrong? on 08:25 - Jun 3 with 729 views | Keno |
| Sayings People Get Wrong? on 08:21 - Jun 3 by NthQldITFC |
I think this one is a bit harsh.
People are usually actually referring to an eScapegoat, which is just a normal scapegoat fitted with an electric motor, which allows you to blame someone else, uphill, that little bit faster. |
The Nanny State gone mad |  |
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| Sayings People Get Wrong? on 08:27 - Jun 3 with 722 views | DJR |
Whilst not wrong, the of in "outside of" seems an unnecessary word when "outside" will do the trick. [Post edited 3 Jun 8:30]
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| Sayings People Get Wrong? on 08:30 - Jun 3 with 705 views | Keno |
| Sayings People Get Wrong? on 08:27 - Jun 3 by DJR |
Whilst not wrong, the of in "outside of" seems an unnecessary word when "outside" will do the trick. [Post edited 3 Jun 8:30]
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in a similar vane has literally become a tad over used?
I mean literally everyone seems to say in literally ever other sentence | |
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| Sayings People Get Wrong? on 08:41 - Jun 3 with 669 views | Steve_M |
I'm on tenderhooks waiting to see the responses here.
Before they were rebranded as HMRC a colleague once referred to 'HMS customs' which still makes me laugh.
Not knowing that 'Pacific' is an ocean and 'specific' an adjective is annoying though, |  |
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| Sayings People Get Wrong? on 08:47 - Jun 3 with 660 views | SouthBucksBlue |
Tenderhooks | | | |
| Sayings People Get Wrong? on 08:55 - Jun 3 with 648 views | surreyblue |
I'll burn that bridge when I get to it | | | |
| Sayings People Get Wrong? on 09:04 - Jun 3 with 628 views | bsw72 |
Soooo many, but to get pacific (specific) we should discuss buying an expresso (espresso). |  | | |
| Sayings People Get Wrong? on 09:05 - Jun 3 with 624 views | iamatractorboy |
| Sayings People Get Wrong? on 08:27 - Jun 3 by DJR |
Whilst not wrong, the of in "outside of" seems an unnecessary word when "outside" will do the trick. [Post edited 3 Jun 8:30]
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'Off of'
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| Sayings People Get Wrong? on 09:14 - Jun 3 with 617 views | _CliveBaker_ |
| Sayings People Get Wrong? on 01:56 - Jun 3 by Perublue |
In the same vein I’m still trying to get over the fact that “being on the drag” is not known outside Ipswich/Suffolk when I truly just accepted that it was a nationwide saying.
Beyond those shores the English speaking world must be even more confused and in some cases shocked by such a phrase.
Oh, I only found this shock out on here in the last year or so. [Post edited 3 Jun 1:57]
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I've been there too. Said it to a colleague in London once and just assumed it was an accepted saying nationally, she didn't have a clue what I meant.
As for sayings that don't translate I have to be considerate of them day to day as I work mostly with Americans. I used jiggery pokery in a meeting a couple of weeks back and 1 of my colleagues was still laughing at it 10 minutes later, he said it sounds like something from Harry Potter. |  | | |
| Sayings People Get Wrong? on 09:37 - Jun 3 with 589 views | Chris_ITFC |
| Sayings People Get Wrong? on 01:56 - Jun 3 by Perublue |
In the same vein I’m still trying to get over the fact that “being on the drag” is not known outside Ipswich/Suffolk when I truly just accepted that it was a nationwide saying.
Beyond those shores the English speaking world must be even more confused and in some cases shocked by such a phrase.
Oh, I only found this shock out on here in the last year or so. [Post edited 3 Jun 1:57]
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“On the drag”
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| Sayings People Get Wrong? on 09:46 - Jun 3 with 575 views | andytown |
| Sayings People Get Wrong? on 09:37 - Jun 3 by Chris_ITFC |
“On the drag”
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‘A beast’ instead of obese is one I’ve heard, albeit rarely. | | | |
| Sayings People Get Wrong? on 10:02 - Jun 3 with 558 views | Rocky |
A Lancashire friend of mine was mystified when I told him that a mutual acquaintance was "a bit queer." I had to explain that it meant he was feeling ill. |  | | |
| Sayings People Get Wrong? on 10:20 - Jun 3 with 519 views | Cafe_Newman |
I could care less. |  |
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| Sayings People Get Wrong? on 10:31 - Jun 3 with 508 views | WeWereZombies |
Writing 'shoe in' instead of 'shoo in' was one I was getting wrong for years, in fact I think it was a discussion on here that caused me to go and look it up. |  |
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| Sayings People Get Wrong? on 10:34 - Jun 3 with 498 views | redrickstuhaart |
| Sayings People Get Wrong? on 10:31 - Jun 3 by WeWereZombies |
Writing 'shoe in' instead of 'shoo in' was one I was getting wrong for years, in fact I think it was a discussion on here that caused me to go and look it up. |
Are people coming up with these off their own backs? | |
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| Sayings People Get Wrong? on 10:38 - Jun 3 with 490 views | BasingstokeBlue |
"Crown jewels" (priceless items kept in the Tower of London) used instead of "family jewels" (a chap's private parts, required for making a family*).
"Spitting feathers" (very thirsty) used instead of "spitting fire" (very angry).
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