Escapegoat

RosiesMawagain

Just spotted this!

That will definitely p* off anyone wanting any cash 🤣🤣

Seen in my paper in the obits “ so sand so was a self-taught autodidact ! Grrr 😡

On tender hooks

RosiesMawagain

Just spotted this!

Love it!

Daddima

grandMattie

How about “the proof is in the pudding “? Grrr 🤬

I’d forgotten about that one!
It did remind me of ‘step foot’ and ‘spill the tea’. When did they replace ‘set foot’ and ‘spill the beans’?

I’ve seen ‘step foot’ many times during the last year or so.
I’ve never seen ‘spill the tea’ though.

Rosies, so much for all the qualifications you need to work in a bank. We knew more before we went to local Secondary School.

kircubbin2000

Having a rest bite after an illness.

That’s one I used to see a lot on a forum for carers of people with dementia. TBH even a fully paid up grumpy old pedant like me couldn’t get too worked up about that one - the poor things were desperate for a ‘bite’ of ‘rest’.

Just spotted this!

One of my late mum's friends would exclaim every year about the lovely St Bernard tree she passed on her way to work. She meant a laburnum tree!

Doodledog

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.

Yes, it was autocorrect that changed it

I preferred autocarrot 😁

Another of my bugbears is “global pandemic”.
Why do t they say “world global pandemic” while they’re at it?

Oreo

Never heard of those Daddima have you seen them written or heard people say them?

Both, Oreo, though they may be more common in American articles.

Love this. Can remember when my old mum told us that she was taking methadone and it was doing her a world of good, she of course meant the tonic metatone, or at least I hope she did. 🤣

Never heard of those Daddima have you seen them written or heard people say them?

grandMattie

How about “the proof is in the pudding “? Grrr 🤬

I’d forgotten about that one!
It did remind me of ‘step foot’ and ‘spill the tea’. When did they replace ‘set foot’ and ‘spill the beans’?

😂

Bet the gnome thread goes down like a lead balloon then. Gnomatter.

Oh @grandMattie, I seethe at this one whenever it pops up. I shout at the tv/radio/person “no, there is no pudding that has any proof in it!”

How about “the proof is in the pudding “? Grrr 🤬

We once had an "escapegoat" - got out of the field - or onto the roof of the shed and away into the woods.
Always came back.

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 !

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 .

‘ 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’

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.

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