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Getting well known sayings mixed up or wrong...

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Katek Wed 08-Sept-21 19:45:19

Not so much a saying. but my brother and I were talking recently about the withdrawal from Afghanistan. I was trying to say that perhaps the withdrawal should have happened after Bin Laden had been killed. What did I say instead? Only that I thought the withdrawal should have happened after the head of IKEA had been found. Got my Isis and my Al Qaeda cross wired………..!

lovebeigecardigans1955 Wed 08-Sept-21 19:26:26

I overheard on the bus, "It just shows to go you." I never knew if it was deliberate or not.

Blossoming Wed 08-Sept-21 19:22:39

One of my aunties used to say things went off like a damp squid grin

JaneJudge Wed 08-Sept-21 19:00:06

I will start.. smile

I just said to my husband, 'well, she has dug her bed so now she will have to lie in it' * and I wasn't talking about the dog...

he looked at me like this hmm

*not normally spiteful, decades behaviour issue which is quite sad