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Sayings People Get Wrong? 22:43 - Jun 2 with 3541 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 22:45 - Jun 2 with 1845 viewsSitfcB

Damp squid.

There’s a bloke at work that always says ‘Jesus wet’

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Sayings People Get Wrong? on 22:48 - Jun 2 with 1828 viewsChris_ITFC

Sayings People Get Wrong? on 22:45 - Jun 2 by SitfcB

Damp squid.

There’s a bloke at work that always says ‘Jesus wet’


Brilliant!
Dripping wet.
Soaking wet.
Jesus wet.

Someone needs to truly define this scale.

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Sayings People Get Wrong? on 22:50 - Jun 2 with 1816 viewsNthQldITFC

Proof in the pudding.

Good work by Philogene...... GREAT WORK BY PHILOGENE!!!
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Sayings People Get Wrong? on 22:54 - Jun 2 with 1784 viewsTRUE_BLUE123

I know a guy who confuses throwing toys out the pram and throwing the baby out with the bathwater and when instructing people not to overreact will say "Don't throw the baby out the Pram"

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Sayings People Get Wrong? on 22:54 - Jun 2 with 1775 viewsIllinoisblue

For all intensive purposes

62 - 78 - 81
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Sayings People Get Wrong? on 22:57 - Jun 2 with 1765 viewsFBI

My old boss at the Suffolk Advertiser free paper in Bury was fond of saying, "I want to be really Pacific about this".

In later years, a much less nice boss (who turned out to be up to naughties with my (MY!!!) assistant) once sent a snotty 'someone's using my teabags'-type email to the entire workplace containing the phrase, "...not to put to finer point on it..." (sic).
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Sayings People Get Wrong? on 23:01 - Jun 2 with 1712 viewsDarkBrandon

Sayings People Get Wrong? on 22:50 - Jun 2 by NthQldITFC

Proof in the pudding.


Yes. YES!
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Sayings People Get Wrong? on 23:23 - Jun 2 with 1637 viewsmrfixit426

Sayings People Get Wrong? on 22:50 - Jun 2 by NthQldITFC

Proof in the pudding.


This one really winds me up!
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Sayings People Get Wrong? on 23:31 - Jun 2 with 1613 viewsIndependentlyBlue

Sayings People Get Wrong? on 23:23 - Jun 2 by mrfixit426

This one really winds me up!


What winds me up is people not knowing the difference between ‘adverse’ (harmful things or conditions) and ‘averse’ (feelings of dislike).

Better to stay silent and be thought a fool than open your mouth and remove all doubt

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Sayings People Get Wrong? on 23:33 - Jun 2 with 1604 viewsJ2BLUE

Pre Madonna is my favourite.
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Sayings People Get Wrong? on 23:47 - Jun 2 with 1599 viewsGuthrum

Sayings People Get Wrong? on 22:50 - Jun 2 by NthQldITFC

Proof in the pudding.


I always thought it was whether the pudding had proofed (risen by the working of the yeast) or not, in an era before baking powder/self-raising flour.

Good Lord! Whatever is it?
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Sayings People Get Wrong? on 00:08 - Jun 3 with 1561 viewsPhilTWTD

Sayings People Get Wrong? on 23:47 - Jun 2 by Guthrum

I always thought it was whether the pudding had proofed (risen by the working of the yeast) or not, in an era before baking powder/self-raising flour.


I'd heard something along those lines as well, but apparently not. Is to do with sausages.

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Sayings People Get Wrong? on 01:17 - Jun 3 with 1487 viewsIPS_wich

Related but on a slight tangent - moving to Australia and there are several phrases that are clearly 'British' that mean nothing here.

The one I most clearly remember was when I was leading a design session and said we need to get something down as a 'starter for ten' that we can all agree on - and no one had the slightest idea what I was talking about.
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Sayings People Get Wrong? on 01:56 - Jun 3 with 1467 viewsPerublue

Sayings People Get Wrong? on 01:17 - Jun 3 by IPS_wich

Related but on a slight tangent - moving to Australia and there are several phrases that are clearly 'British' that mean nothing here.

The one I most clearly remember was when I was leading a design session and said we need to get something down as a 'starter for ten' that we can all agree on - and no one had the slightest idea what I was talking about.


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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Sayings People Get Wrong? on 05:07 - Jun 3 with 1388 viewsIPS_wich

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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Absolutely, I discovered this when I went to uni in Leeds and said it to a bunch of Geordies, Brummies and Scousers in my halls of residence. No one had the faintest idea what being on the drag meant!!
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Sayings People Get Wrong? on 06:27 - Jun 3 with 1305 viewsiamatractorboy

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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Oh yes haha. My ex wasn't from our fine county and the first time I used that expression she gave me a very funny look. I think she was thinking more along the lines of Lily Savage or Ru Paul than being a little bit late.
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Sayings People Get Wrong? on 06:29 - Jun 3 with 1299 viewsiamatractorboy

I've seen 'doth my cap' a few times on here lately.

'Change tact' is another I hear spoken sometimes.
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Sayings People Get Wrong? on 06:34 - Jun 3 with 1284 viewsiamatractorboy

Oh, and one that's not really a saying, more a case of poor grammar...

There seems to be a growing trend to say 'between 10 to 12' (or whatever), rather than 'between 10 and 12'. I see it in official communications stuff and all sorts. It really grinds my gears.
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Sayings People Get Wrong? on 06:41 - Jun 3 with 1262 viewsKeno

Sayings People Get Wrong? on 06:34 - Jun 3 by iamatractorboy

Oh, and one that's not really a saying, more a case of poor grammar...

There seems to be a growing trend to say 'between 10 to 12' (or whatever), rather than 'between 10 and 12'. I see it in official communications stuff and all sorts. It really grinds my gears.


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Sayings People Get Wrong? on 06:46 - Jun 3 with 1251 viewsPerublue

For me, loose and lose is the the one that really destroys a well crafted post by someone.

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Sayings People Get Wrong? on 06:51 - Jun 3 with 1237 viewsnoggin

Sayings People Get Wrong? on 22:54 - Jun 2 by Illinoisblue

For all intensive purposes


For all in tents and perverts.

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Sayings People Get Wrong? on 06:56 - Jun 3 with 1216 viewsbluelagos

I doff my cap to those who take the time to correct posters who get everyday sayings wrong.

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Sayings People Get Wrong? on 06:57 - Jun 3 with 1214 viewsKeno

Sayings People Get Wrong? on 06:51 - Jun 3 by noggin

For all in tents and perverts.


to many cocks spoil the brothel

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Sayings People Get Wrong? on 07:23 - Jun 3 with 1161 viewsblueprint

Pigs and troughs
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Sayings People Get Wrong? on 07:26 - Jun 3 with 1143 viewsDubtractor

Sayings People Get Wrong? on 22:54 - Jun 2 by Illinoisblue

For all intensive purposes


I've got a mate at work who says this.

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