malapropisms and oddball expressions
One hears interesting things in meetings. Some years ago, I began jotting down the more choice quotes. Here are my favorites. Be assured that I was present to hear each of the following in-person:
- If that happens, I’m really up a pickle
- We don’t want people reading our dirty underwear
- People kept conjugating in the kitchen while I was trying to cook
- That remains to be foreseen
- Right out of the bat
- We’ve been beating that with a dead horse
- That’s an eggregarious sin
- We’ve made it innoculous
- We don’t want to get signtracked
- I’m just trying to cut her a bone
- It got lost in the shovel
- My husband takes me for granite
- Don’t give him a finger to blame
- They had us jumping through miracles
- Let’s make sure our ducks are covered
- Let me preference that remark
- I hope no one minds if I tell an ethical joke
- That’s a big load of crock
- I don’t know what to contribute that phenomenon to
- Let’s get together and shoot the fat
- I’m dried in the wool
- We’re under the 8 ball
- That’s a mote point
- That’s a mute point
- When does your insurance policy collapse?
- At the other end of the specter
- He suffers from acme blemishes
- We don’t want to bite our nose to spite our face
- He has the right aurora about him
- Let me misspell that notion right now
- Man, I’d run away from that with a 10 foot pole
- It’s like peeing in a warm wind
- Let’s make sure all our dots and i’s are crossed
- I’ll rub my nose on that
- That’s the anchor that holds the planes in air
- That’s a battle we can’t bite off
- Instead of states, Canada has providences
- That’s older than hen’s teeth
- That stuff is selling faster than candy on a baby’s butt
- She’ll rape you over the coals
- Children are impressionistic
- That’s kind of a rub on their nose