Malapropisms. (A lighthearted thread)

Various commentators on the virus have claimed recently that we are in the eye of the storm. If only we were - that would give us some respite!

A friend’s mother used to talk about a fragment of her imagination.

AGAA4 the asteroids one got me giggling.

My young daughter was on a school trip, staying in an old house. She phoned to tell me she had condensation. I thought she meant on the windows, but it turned out she hadn't been to the toilet.

A neighbour of my mother had one or two 'sayings'.. she'd seen a fireplace in a recently visited stately home, 'all moggany and alablaster'. During the war, she'd worked for the Admirality.

My DM quite enjoyed the occasional Pisa!

My mum used to always talk about Kaola bears. Think she was thinking about poultices in the old days!

I once announced “I am ravishing” ?

I meant I am ravenous.

I was about 19 at the time soooooo embarrassed.

A friend calls a disappointing experience "a bit of a damp squid"

My DH announced in front of my student doctor DS and his student doctor friends that he thought there was too much testestrogen in the room.

WW2. I don’t suppose you were once an actress who played tennis - were you? ? (see 11/01. 16.51)