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Sayings People Get Wrong? 22:43 - Jun 2 with 1234 views

“Ducks in a roll” is a great image. Tasty too, depending on the type of roll.

Let’s please not have this McKenna managerial circus ALL summer long again by cressi 2 Jun 21:23
I imagine this won't entice McKenna as Fulham coming mid table is the tip top of their ambition hence why Silva has left, plus going home to his boyhood club.
We will need to have our ducks in a roll for when the transfer window opens as different managers will have different views of what is required.

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Where will we finish this season?

Sayings People Get Wrong? on 07:27 - Jun 3 with 232 views

NthQldITFC

Sayings People Get Wrong? on 23:23 - Jun 2 by mrfixit426
This one really winds me up!

Most of these really 'get up my goat', but at the same time I recognise with an inner grin, that it's my problem, not the speaker/writer.

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Sayings People Get Wrong? on 07:31 - Jun 3 with 223 views

BlueBoots

Sayings People Get Wrong? on 23:33 - Jun 2 by J2BLUE
Pre Madonna is my favourite.

That's a mute point I think

Poll:

My morning poo-poo took 3 flushes to clear. Who do I call?

Sayings People Get Wrong? on 07:46 - Jun 3 with 201 views

cressi

At the bingo number 69
A meal for two

Sayings People Get Wrong? on 07:59 - Jun 3 with 185 views

Crawfordsboot

“You can’t underestimate” when really they mean the opposite!

Sayings People Get Wrong? on 08:01 - Jun 3 with 183 views

BanksterDebtSlave

Round the houses.

	"They break our legs and tell us to be grateful when they offer us crutches."
Poll:	Political leaning/Ashton in/out.

Sayings People Get Wrong? on 08:21 - Jun 3 with 142 views

NthQldITFC

Sayings People Get Wrong? on 06:41 - Jun 3 by Keno
Escape Goat

I think this one is a bit harsh.

People are usually actually referring to an eScapegoat, which is just a normal scapegoat fitted with an electric motor, which allows you to blame someone else, uphill, that little bit faster.

	Good work by Philogene...... GREAT WORK BY PHILOGENE!!!
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Sayings People Get Wrong? on 08:22 - Jun 3 with 143 views

Meadowlark

One of our esteemed local radio presenters often used to say "lets "focus in" on....." whatever the talking point of the day was.
You don't focus in! Maybe you zoom in, but you just focus. Perhaps he meant focus on?

Sayings People Get Wrong? on 08:22 - Jun 3 with 141 views

DJR

unchartered waters

Sayings People Get Wrong? on 08:25 - Jun 3 with 120 views

Keno

Sayings People Get Wrong? on 08:21 - Jun 3 by NthQldITFC
I think this one is a bit harsh. People are usually actually referring to an eScapegoat, which is just a normal scapegoat fitted with an electric motor, which allows you to blame someone else, uphill, that little bit faster.

The Nanny State gone mad

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Sayings People Get Wrong? on 08:27 - Jun 3 with 113 views

DJR

Whilst not wrong, the of in "outside of" seems an unnecessary word when "outside" will do the trick.

[Post edited 3 Jun 8:30]

Sayings People Get Wrong? on 08:30 - Jun 3 with 96 views

Keno

Sayings People Get Wrong? on 08:27 - Jun 3 by DJR
Whilst not wrong, the of in "outside of" seems an unnecessary word when "outside" will do the trick. [Post edited 3 Jun 8:30]

in a similar vane has literally become a tad over used?

I mean literally everyone seems to say in literally ever other sentence

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Sayings People Get Wrong? on 08:34 - Jun 3 with 84 views

DJR

When it comes to pronunciation, the American pronunciation of privacy (prive-acy) in British adverts and the like annoys me.

Indeed, the holding message on the Tunbridge Wells borough council phone line, spoken by a beastly jolly young woman, even includes this pronunciation.

Standards are slipping.

[Post edited 3 Jun 8:36]

Sayings People Get Wrong? on 08:41 - Jun 3 with 59 views

Steve_M

I'm on tenderhooks waiting to see the responses here.

Before they were rebranded as HMRC a colleague once referred to 'HMS customs' which still makes me laugh.

Not knowing that 'Pacific' is an ocean and 'specific' an adjective is annoying though,

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Sayings People Get Wrong? on 08:47 - Jun 3 with 51 views

SouthBucksBlue

Tenderhooks

Sayings People Get Wrong? on 08:55 - Jun 3 with 39 views

surreyblue

I'll burn that bridge when I get to it

Sayings People Get Wrong? on 09:04 - Jun 3 with 16 views

bsw72

Soooo many, but to get pacific (specific) we should discuss buying an expresso (espresso).

Sayings People Get Wrong? on 09:05 - Jun 3 with 15 views

iamatractorboy

Sayings People Get Wrong? on 08:27 - Jun 3 by DJR
Whilst not wrong, the of in "outside of" seems an unnecessary word when "outside" will do the trick. [Post edited 3 Jun 8:30]

'Off of'

Arghhhhh

Sayings People Get Wrong? on 09:14 - Jun 3 with 8 views

_CliveBaker_

Sayings People Get Wrong? on 01:56 - Jun 3 by Perublue
In the same vein I’m still trying to get over the fact that “being on the drag” is not known outside Ipswich/Suffolk when I truly just accepted that it was a nationwide saying. Beyond those shores the English speaking world must be even more confused and in some cases shocked by such a phrase. Oh, I only found this shock out on here in the last year or so. [Post edited 3 Jun 1:57]

I've been there too. Said it to a colleague in London once and just assumed it was an accepted saying nationally, she didn't have a clue what I meant.

As for sayings that don't translate I have to be considerate of them day to day as I work mostly with Americans. I used jiggery pokery in a meeting a couple of weeks back and 1 of my colleagues was still laughing at it 10 minutes later, he said it sounds like something from Harry Potter.

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