Incorrect Idioms

I work with a guy - really good dude - who seems to say every single idiom and expression incorrectly. Some days it's entertaining, others it's annoying....but it's uncanny how consistent he is in screwing them up. On Monday I decided I'd jot down a few days' worth of them and start a thread here. Thought we could see what other folks have heard mis-used, or mis-used themselves.

"a real oiled machine" instead of "a well oiled machine"

"for all intensive purposes" instead of "for all intents and purposes"

"tough road to hoe" instead of "tough row to hoe"

"meant that tongue and cheek" instead of "meant that tongue-in-cheek"

"got his just deserves" instead of "got his just deserts"

"one in the same" instead of "one and the same"

....I've heard him use all of those just since Monday morning.

Another one I've heard him say on numerous previous occasions is "mute point" instead of "moot point".

Oh.....and "nip it in the butt" instead of "nip it in the bud".

Is he from Indiana or Kentucky?

These are cracking me up

Is he from Indiana or Kentucky?

Indiana. Fo sho.

We all feel your pain, but these are comical....you can take a horse to water but you can't teach him to drink. :lol2:

Indiana. Fo sho.

Seriously...EVERYONE I work with that lives in Indiana uses these idioms incorrectly. Every.Single.One of them

:lol2: I've heard all of those said incorrectly in those same ways.

Seriously...EVERYONE I work with that lives in Indiana uses these idioms incorrectly. Every.Single.One of them

Agree 100%

Not idioms, but these drive me crazy.

Hear these...

Valentimes

Hallmart

Walmarks

See these typed out...

I have a car for sell

I asked him if he'd sale it to me

He just said another one: "in all honestly" instead of "in all honesty".

"I could care less" rather than "I couldn't care less."

Hear this all the time.

"6 and a 1/2 of one or a dozen of the other."

I work with a guy - really good dude - who seems to say every single idiom and expression incorrectly. Some days it's entertaining, others it's annoying....but it's uncanny how consistent he is in screwing them up. On Monday I decided I'd jot down a few days' worth of them and start a thread here. Thought we could see what other folks have heard mis-used, or mis-used themselves.

 

"a real oiled machine" instead of "a well oiled machine"

 

"for all intensive purposes" instead of "for all intents and purposes"

 

"tough road to hoe" instead of "tough row to hoe"

 

"meant that tongue and cheek" instead of "meant that tongue-in-cheek"

 

"got his just deserves" instead of "got his just deserts"

 

"one in the same" instead of "one and the same"

 

 

 

....I've heard him use all of those just since Monday morning.

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