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Sayings People Get Wrong? 22:43 - Jun 2 with 5163 viewsChris_ITFC

“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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Sayings People Get Wrong? on 07:27 - Jun 3 with 929 viewsNthQldITFC

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 920 viewsBlueBoots

Sayings People Get Wrong? on 23:33 - Jun 2 by J2BLUE

Pre Madonna is my favourite.


That's a mute point I think

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Sayings People Get Wrong? on 07:46 - Jun 3 with 897 viewscressi

At the bingo number 69
A meal for two
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Sayings People Get Wrong? on 07:59 - Jun 3 with 882 viewsCrawfordsboot

“You can’t underestimate” when really they mean the opposite!
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Sayings People Get Wrong? on 08:01 - Jun 3 with 879 viewsBanksterDebtSlave

Round the houses.

"They break our legs and tell us to be grateful when they offer us crutches."
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Sayings People Get Wrong? on 08:21 - Jun 3 with 839 viewsNthQldITFC

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.

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Sayings People Get Wrong? on 08:22 - Jun 3 with 840 viewsMeadowlark

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?
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Sayings People Get Wrong? on 08:22 - Jun 3 with 838 viewsDJR

unchartered waters
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Sayings People Get Wrong? on 08:25 - Jun 3 with 817 viewsKeno

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 810 viewsDJR

Whilst not wrong, the of in "outside of" seems an unnecessary word when "outside" will do the trick.
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Sayings People Get Wrong? on 08:30 - Jun 3 with 793 viewsKeno

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.
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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 785 viewsDJR

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.
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Sayings People Get Wrong? on 08:41 - Jun 3 with 757 viewsSteve_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 748 viewsSouthBucksBlue

Tenderhooks
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Sayings People Get Wrong? on 08:55 - Jun 3 with 736 viewssurreyblue

I'll burn that bridge when I get to it
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Sayings People Get Wrong? on 09:04 - Jun 3 with 716 viewsbsw72

Soooo many, but to get pacific (specific) we should discuss buying an expresso (espresso).
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Sayings People Get Wrong? on 09:05 - Jun 3 with 712 viewsiamatractorboy

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.
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'Off of'

Arghhhhh
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Sayings People Get Wrong? on 09:14 - Jun 3 with 705 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.
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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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Sayings People Get Wrong? on 09:37 - Jun 3 with 677 viewsChris_ITFC

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.
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“On the drag”


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Sayings People Get Wrong? on 09:46 - Jun 3 with 663 viewsandytown

Sayings People Get Wrong? on 09:37 - Jun 3 by Chris_ITFC

“On the drag”



‘A beast’ instead of obese is one I’ve heard, albeit rarely.
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Sayings People Get Wrong? on 10:02 - Jun 3 with 646 viewsRocky

A Lancashire friend of mine was mystified when I told him that a mutual acquaintance was "a bit queer." I had to explain that it meant he was feeling ill.
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Sayings People Get Wrong? on 10:20 - Jun 3 with 607 viewsCafe_Newman

I could care less.

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Sayings People Get Wrong? on 10:31 - Jun 3 with 596 viewsWeWereZombies

Writing 'shoe in' instead of 'shoo in' was one I was getting wrong for years, in fact I think it was a discussion on here that caused me to go and look it up.

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Sayings People Get Wrong? on 10:34 - Jun 3 with 586 viewsredrickstuhaart

Sayings People Get Wrong? on 10:31 - Jun 3 by WeWereZombies

Writing 'shoe in' instead of 'shoo in' was one I was getting wrong for years, in fact I think it was a discussion on here that caused me to go and look it up.


Are people coming up with these off their own backs?

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Sayings People Get Wrong? on 10:38 - Jun 3 with 578 viewsBasingstokeBlue

"Crown jewels" (priceless items kept in the Tower of London) used instead of "family jewels" (a chap's private parts, required for making a family*).

"Spitting feathers" (very thirsty) used instead of "spitting fire" (very angry).

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