Malapropisms

[CailinDeas]

Any amusing malapropisms to share?
I used to know someone who would say "Could you reflush my memory on that please."

[redman41]

We seem to have unleased a hornet's nest. !!

[cupid04]

I know it's something like that, but I can't remember what it is!

[craft1948]

I once played Mrs Malaprop in a production of The Rivals, and it was very difficult to remember to say the wrong words..............

[jake-the-peg]

I guess it's more a mixed metaphore but I've always loved:

"People who skate on thin ice end up in hot water!"

[Zeuhl]

I had a PA who was always organising flights for me from Gatport Airwick.

[heathfield]

A female friend refers to her brightly-coloured footwear, bought whilst on holiday in Spain, as her 'gory' (rather than 'gaudy') 'espadrillos'.

[ludwig]

I've heard people refer to eucalyptus wallpaper and cappuccino nuts.

[gness]

OH often called me duck....seeing my empty glass at a party once he called across the room "Do you want another drunk dick?"

[tonyav]

Well I've been called a drunken dick in the past gness.

[ludwig]

The restaurant chain Franky and Benny's - my wife keeps calling it Benny and Jerry's.

Similarly the program 'A little bit of Fry and Laurie', she used to call it 'A little bit of Hugh and Laurie'.

[Psybbo]

How could you refuse an offer like that?

[gness]

Oh Tony!!! xx

Psyb.....Never refuse an offer Psyb. x

[society]

An oral contract isn't worth the paper it's printed on.

[zebo]

My late Dad was convinced that precinct was pronounced prectinct.

[society]

If your eye falls on a bargain, pick it up.

[boxtops]

My sister's daughter used to work in Wolwithers

[DTCwordfan]

"Princess Caroline of Monaco's marriage was never consumed, therefore the Pope could grant the divorce." So said a female friend of mine of that event, at a dinner I was hosting.....

[mrs_overall]

My late mum once commented on my aunt's new fur coat and said she was sure it wasn't real but it was stimulated

[society]

That snake in the grass is barking up the wrong tree.

[DTCwordfan]

As I am on about the Vatican, "Michelangelo painted the Sixteenth Chapel."

Or to go to the Masters of the Malapropism Universe:

George Bush: "It will take time to restore chaos and order."

Dan Quayle: "Republicans understand the importance of bondage between a mother and child."