Mixed up phrases...

I keep hearing common sayings and similies mixed up... why is this happening?

Please report the misuse of accepted similies, metaphors and old saying here... 

eg. On big brother recently... 

"Many hands spoil the broth". Instead of "Too many cooks spoil the broth". 

That's just one example but I hear several per week and it really bugs me.

LIKE A KNIFE THROUGH HOT BUTTER! 

I kid you not.

On sugar free farm instead of "cream of the crop" one of them said "cream of the corn" (and not a deliberate mistake). 

People also say GENERALLY instead of GENUINELY.

I have to say that I love your late night posts Biggie!

"The proof is in the pudding."

No it's not.

The proof of the pudding is in the eating.

The pudding alone proves nothing.

Really annoys me that one.

People who talk about 'Nucular weapons'. Arrrgh.

Not quite in the same vein as Biggie's examples but still a funny example of how expressions can get confused:-

A sports reporter on Sky last week commented that a rugby player had received a lengthy ban for "making eye-contact"....which sounded like a very harsh punishment!

Of course, the reporter meant to say "for making contact with the eyes......"

I know that language is constantly evolving and changing but I was particularly dismayed a couple of years ago to read that the OED had actually modified its definition of the word "literally" to now encompass the way it's used by kids nowadays.

"I was so shocked, my head literally fell off!"

No it didn't, it's still attached to your shoulders by your neck.

The whole point of the word "literally" is to emphasize what actually happened.

But not anymore, it appears.....

It left me literally fuming.

(There was actual smoke coming out of my ears.)

When someone changes their mind and people say "he has done a complete 360". 

That isn't changing anything.

people who say "pacifically" instead of "specifically"

Chairmanda wrote:people who say "pacifically" instead of "specifically"

I actually know someone who does that!

karlypants wrote:

Chairmanda wrote:people who say "pacifically" instead of "specifically"

I actually know someone who does that!

I know 2 people who say it. What the fuck is so difficultly about it? One a dumbass but the other is a smart mofo. Is it a speech impediment of are they just asking for a slap?

finlaymcdanger wrote:

karlypants wrote:

Chairmanda wrote:people who say "pacifically" instead of "specifically"

I actually know someone who does that!

I know 2 people who say it. What the fuck is so difficultly about it? One a dumbass but the other is a smart mofo. Is it a speech impediment of are they just asking for a slap?

The same bloke that does this goes into the fridge to write the brands down when making a shopping list.

One time he wrote Stoke instead of Stork down though.

I don't know why he has the newspapers delivered, must be to look at the pictures in it.

Biggie wrote:LIKE A KNIFE THROUGH HOT BUTTER! 

I kid you not.

John McGinley actually said that on Radio Manc during todays match!!

rammywhite wrote:

Biggie wrote:LIKE A KNIFE THROUGH HOT BUTTER! 

I kid you not.

John McGinley actually said that on Radio Manc during todays match!!

No friggin way. What a twit.  

And Breadman, totally getring the pudding one. Hear it all the time... 

The pan calling the teapot black.

Biggie wrote:

rammywhite wrote:

Biggie wrote:LIKE A KNIFE THROUGH HOT BUTTER! 

I kid you not.

John McGinley actually said that on Radio Manc during todays match!!

No friggin way. What a twit.  

And Breadman, totally getring the pudding one. Hear it all the time... 

The pan calling the teapot black.

Wasn't it the pot that called the kettle black and not the pan. Can't stand people getting their phrases mixed up

okocha wrote:Not quite in the same vein as Biggie's examples but still a funny example of how expressions can get confused:-

A sports reporter on Sky last week commented that a rugby player had received a lengthy ban for "making eye-contact"....which sounded like a very harsh punishment!

Of course, the reporter meant to say "for making contact with the eyes......"

I read this on the paper worded the same way.  
I re read the whole article to try and get some clarification as to what had gone on... But all it said was ban for making eye contact. Bad reporting.

This the one that grips my pips: ' the exception that proves the rule'...
NO IT FUCKIN DOESN'T - it disproves it, you arsehole- I would like to meet the twat that came up with that one

I heard a cop on TV talking about a firearms incident and he referred to the weapon as a Smith and Webley. ( I'm guessing he meant Smith and Wesson? )

"Don't look at me in that tone of voice", is one of the gems I heard a few days ago.