Old sayings?

we have a lot of old sayings that have come down through the years ,handed from
grans to mums grandads to sons then on to the immediate family but on the way the words get (MIXED UP) . example. this morning at breakfast my wife and i were talking about a family we know. i was explaining to her how well they were doing,she said
"THEY ALWAYS LAND ON THEIR FACE"!!!!! i thought for a moment ,burst out laughing
and said "i think you have that one wrong " it should be
THEY ALWAYS LAND ON THEIR FEET !!! she cannot be the only one who has misquoted old sayings , i have done it several times and felt a fool after it

WHAT HAVE BEEN YOUR MISQUOTES?????. music :hehe:

 

my kids always say "nothing of your business" instead of "none of your business". I keep correcting them, but I think I'll give up now

"Mind your own business" seems to have morphed into "Mind your own beeswax" wtf??

 

You ask me what sayings get mixed up? I'm not telling you. That for you to know and me to find out

 

I always thought Head over heels was a bit of blooper-surely that's as it should be??

 

lol yeh it is. we say @rse over tit, here :hehe:

 

Not if you're a bat.

Same here.

 

a friend of mine was always using Misquotes. "it never rains but it pours", became
"it never rains but it SNOWS!!. " a rolling stone gathers no moss " became
a rolling stone gathers no GRASS!! . music.

 

:hehe: A funny thread this! I wouldn't like to repeat some I have heard :hehe:

 

Hi Jazmine AH GO ON GO ON :wink:. music.

 

:lollol: well it isn't misquoting sayings so much as using malapropisms.

It can cause hilarity but not for the poor victim.

 

Hi Randyros same in scotland ,the only difference we are a wee bit more eloquent,
we say "ERSE OVER TIT":hehe: music.

 

We say that too. Or rather A over T. :dh:

I will get into trouble if OH knows I posted this but he is the poor user of wrong words :hehe:

When I was in hospital he went to a family BBQ with about 18 family members present. His dad was showing everyone a wasps nest and OH says " Oh what a wonderful orgasm" he mean't of course "what a wonderful organism" He has never lived that one down.:yho:

 

A friend of mine (and quite bright too) was talking about a uni-sex toilet facility. He got a bit confused and called it a bi-sexual facility.

 

lol @ Dave W, my Nanna used to call her hairdressers the bi-sexual hairdressers; "patronised" milk, she would call views "picture-scew". I once overheard ( ear-wigged) a conversation she was having with my Mum about a neighbours daughter saying, she went to the doctors, she turns out to have "gondollier".


Aaah, good times, good times.

 

:hehe:Awww Lollipop poor nana!!

The funny phrases seem to be used at the most innappropriate times. Poor OH sits there all puzzled when we start to chuckle :cnfs: I will try to think of some more.
I remember at work once a girl was describing a block of flats but she said a flock of bats and didn't realise!