March 26, 20179 yr Maybe the wrong context here since we're speaking about idioms but I'll throw this in anyway. Could we please, please, please stop calling photographs and/or works of art "pitchers?" Please, I beg you. Pitchers throw curve balls or dispense fluid. PICTURES are images or artworks. Okay, I'm much better now.
March 28, 20179 yr When I hear about idioms I flash to " A Few Good Men " and the back and forth between the newstand guy and Tom Cruises character! ....A rolling stone gathers no moss! You can say that again.
March 30, 20179 yr Author Today's incorrect idiom from my coworker: "He was nervous as a cat in a room full of chairs" rather than "nervous as a cat in a room full of rockers".
March 30, 20179 yr Today's incorrect idiom from my coworker: "He was nervous as a cat in a room full of chairs" rather than "nervous as a cat in a room full of rockers". What I have always heard is "nervous as a long-tailed cat in a room full of rocking chairs".
March 31, 20179 yr Author Two new ones from today: "That one should be close to his alley" instead of "That one should be right up his alley". The other I'm kind of confused by still. He was talking about an estimator for a flooring subcontractor of ours who tends to be kind of all over the place, and who gets easily confused and regularly makes mistakes as a result. My coworker said that the flooring estimator is "like a kid in a glass house". I thiiiink the expression he might have been looking for was "like a bull in a China shop", and instead he ended up using a really strange combination of "like a kid in a candy store" and "People who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones."
March 31, 20179 yr 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 OR my alltime favorite, Axe me a question.
March 31, 20179 yr OR my alltime favorite, Axe me a question. I worked with a guy that would literally say, "My wife axed me if we had our Valentimes for sell at Walmarks yet." :banghead:
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