Escapegoat

I've never heard this!
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Surely one of life's little joys is deliberately saying sayings wrong
Or will Korma come & get me?

I have never heard this either.

My friend is the master of wrong pronunciation.
Two which come to mind are balsamatic vinegar and how much she enjoys Andrew Roo on the television.She has countless others.

I bet whoever said that said it out of pure ignorance. Had no idea of the actual word, ‘scapegoat ‘, or the biblical reference
Such is education these days
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It's an egg corn - substituting a similar sounding word for the 'correct' one. Other examples include 'toeing the line', 'passing mustard' and 'tenderhooks'.

As they are all idioms it's not really 'pure ignorance', so much as not knowing where/how the phrases originated.

Ha! Autocarrot has corrected my eggcorn 'towing the line' for me😀

keepcalmandcavachon

Surely one of life's little joys is deliberately saying sayings wrong
Or will Korma come & get me?

You're just trying to curry favour now!

^ Other examples include 'toeing the line', 'passing mustard' and 'tenderhooks^

Err, 'toeing the line' is correct. 'Towing the line' is the wrong 'un.

Doodledog

Ha! Autocarrot has corrected my eggcorn 'towing the line' for me😀

Oh, sorry, I didn't see that before rushing in to correct you

Doodledog

Ha! Autocarrot has corrected my eggcorn 'towing the line' for me😀

Mighty quotes from little eggcorns grow.....

Sparklefizz

Grrr! He's an "escapegoat" !!! sets my teeth on edge.

What a glorious mental picture this conjured up.

Billy and Nanny Goat leaving the pasture and hot-footing it into the sunset!

Or should this be hot-hoofing it?

With Heidi and Peter in hot pursuit while Clara calls encouragement from her wheel-chair.

Yes an eggcorn. Scape means an act of escaping (OED).

Ann Patchett published a children’s book titled Escape Goat which is about a a curious goat who keeps escaping from its pen on a farm. Each time the goat escapes, something around the farm goes wrong. The goat is really being used as a scapegoat by the farmer’s family, taking the blame for everyone else’s mischief.

Act 1 Scene 4. Hamlet said he was to the manner born but it’s sometimes written as to the manor born implying wealth and status - as in the popular BBC series.

Also always said is All that glistens is not gold’ The proper expression is ‘ All that glisters is not gold ‘.
Most people say the first.

Doodledog

It's an egg corn - substituting a similar sounding word for the 'correct' one. Other examples include 'toeing the line', 'passing mustard' and 'tenderhooks'.

As they are all idioms it's not really 'pure ignorance', so much as not knowing where/how the phrases originated.

Or indeed what they mean.

NB Toeing the line is correct!
It’s “towing” that is wrong.
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Having a rest bite after an illness.

Having kept goats foe some years I can assure you that they are all definitely Escapegoats!

RosiesMawagain

Doodledog

It's an egg corn - substituting a similar sounding word for the 'correct' one. Other examples include 'toeing the line', 'passing mustard' and 'tenderhooks'.

As they are all idioms it's not really 'pure ignorance', so much as not knowing where/how the phrases originated.

Or indeed what they mean.

NB Toeing the line is correct!
It’s “towing” that is wrong.
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Yes, it was autocorrect that changed it, as I said immediately I saw what had happened.

‘towing the line’ referred to horse drawn barges before motorisation, the large heavy horse plodding along a tow path

Oh more please ladies 🙏🏽 - love this thread 👍☘️

SORES

‘towing the line’ referred to horse drawn barges before motorisation, the large heavy horse plodding along a tow path

I disagree. There is no such expression about 'towing' the line, other than as a misunderstanding of the meanings of 'toe the line' and 'toeing the line, which have well documented military and naval origins.

‘ Escapegoat’ was one of Auntie’s favourites, along with ‘ignorantramus’!

‘ Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned’ is a paraphrase of ‘-‘Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, nor Hell a fury like a woman scorned’
Then there’s - ‘ Pride goeth before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall’

Scapegoat is mentioned in Leviticus . It has a Hebrew origin .
Two goats were brought to the Yom Kippur temple and one was freed and the other sacrificed .

I just looked it up and the scapegoat was the one freed and as he did so he took away sin
Tyndale originally introduced the word as escapegoat !
Leviticus 16 .
Now that's interesting.
Google is a great if you can't get back to sleep !