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Just some I've noticed around the internet. Some are amazingly common...I haven't put individual google counts as you usually have to try various tenses/pronouns etc to get a useful figure
[nq:1]100 hits[/nq]
"batter an eyelid"
"get one's gander up"
"keep one's ears peeled" (sometimes intentional/jocular) "eat with one's mouth full"
"all hell went loose"
"be on tender hooks"
"paint one with the same brush"
"put it into writing"
"old mother's tale"
"right frame of mood"
"try your upmost"
I've already admitted here before that I always thought it was "gander up" (vs "dander up"), so I don't think the above necessarily illustrate ignorance - people basically repeat what they first hear (or believe they hear!), and don't even necessarily notice that a similar & far more common form of a saying they use is actually different.
I'm sure there are plenty more of course.
Dylan
[nq:1]100 hits[/nq]
"batter an eyelid"
"get one's gander up"
"keep one's ears peeled" (sometimes intentional/jocular) "eat with one's mouth full"
"all hell went loose"
"be on tender hooks"
"paint one with the same brush"
"put it into writing"
"old mother's tale"
"right frame of mood"
"try your upmost"
I've already admitted here before that I always thought it was "gander up" (vs "dander up"), so I don't think the above necessarily illustrate ignorance - people basically repeat what they first hear (or believe they hear!), and don't even necessarily notice that a similar & far more common form of a saying they use is actually different.
I'm sure there are plenty more of course.
Dylan
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[nq:1]Just some I've noticed around the internet. I haven't put individual google counts as you usually have to try various tenses/pronouns etc to get a useful figure[/nq] [nq:2]100 hits[/nq] [nq:1]"batter an eyelid" "get one's gander up" "keep one's ears peeled" (sometimes intentional/jocular) "eat with one's mouth full"[/nq] I don't see your objection there. "Don't eat with your mouth full" is a common parental admonition.
- [nq:1]Just some I've noticed around the internet.
- I haven't put individual google counts as you usually have to try various tenses/pronouns etc to get a useful figure[/nq] [nq:2]100 hits[/nq] [nq:1]"batter an eyelid" "get one's gander up" "keep one's ears peeled" (sometimes intentional/jocular) "eat with one's mouth full"[/nq] I don't see your objection there.
- "Don't eat with your mouth full" is a common parental admonition.
- Are you thinking of "in one mouthful," in one gulp?
- [nq:1]"all **** went loose" "be on tender hooks" "paint one with the same brush"[/nq] I don't quite get that, either as a saying or a mistake.
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[nq:1]Just some I've noticed around the internet. Some are amazingly common...I haven't put individual google counts as you usually have to try various tenses/pronouns etc to get a useful figure[/nq]
[nq:2]100 hits[/nq]
[nq:1]"batter an eyelid" "get one's gander up" "keep one's ears peeled" (sometimes intentional/jocular) "eat with one's mouth full"[/nq]
I don't see your objection ther
[nq:2]100 hits[/nq]
[nq:1]"batter an eyelid" "get one's gander up" "keep one's ears peeled" (sometimes intentional/jocular) "eat with one's mouth full"[/nq]
I don't see your objection ther
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[nq:2]Just some I've noticed around the internet. Some are amazingly ... one's ears peeled" (sometimes intentional/jocular) "eat with one's mouth full"[/nq]
[nq:1]I don't see your objection there. "Don't eat with your mouth full" is a common parental admonition. Are you thinking of "in one mouthful," in one gulp?[/nq]
Don't talk with your mouth full.
Skitt (in Hayward, California)
[nq:1]I don't see your objection there. "Don't eat with your mouth full" is a common parental admonition. Are you thinking of "in one mouthful," in one gulp?[/nq]
Don't talk with your mouth full.
Skitt (in Hayward, California)
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Dylan Nicholson infrared:
[nq:1]"batter an eyelid"[/nq]
Sounds like a case of salt and battery.
[nq:1]"get one's gander up"[/nq]
Appropriate if you have a saucy goose, I suppose.
[nq:1]"eat with one's mouth full"[/nq]
Variants of this can easily happen accidentally. As a child I used to hear "Don't speak with your mouth open".
Peter Moylan (Email Removed)
[nq:1]"batter an eyelid"[/nq]
Sounds like a case of salt and battery.
[nq:1]"get one's gander up"[/nq]
Appropriate if you have a saucy goose, I suppose.
[nq:1]"eat with one's mouth full"[/nq]
Variants of this can easily happen accidentally. As a child I used to hear "Don't speak with your mouth open".
Peter Moylan (Email Removed)
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[nq:1]Don't talk with your mouth full.[/nq]
Especially if it's full of water.
R.
Especially if it's full of water.
R.
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[nq:2]100 hits[/nq]
[nq:1]"right frame of mood"[/nq]
This is absolutely fabulous!
[nq:1]"right frame of mood"[/nq]
This is absolutely fabulous!
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[nq:2]"eat with one's mouth full"[/nq]
[nq:1]I don't see your objection there. "Don't eat with your mouth full" is a common parental admonition.[/nq]
Really? I've heard, and used, "Don't talk with your mouth full", but not "Don't eat with your mouth full".
I've tried to phrase the above very politely. I've been notified that I have won the Netherlands National Lottery and 250,000 euro.
[nq:1]I don't see your objection there. "Don't eat with your mouth full" is a common parental admonition.[/nq]
Really? I've heard, and used, "Don't talk with your mouth full", but not "Don't eat with your mouth full".
I've tried to phrase the above very politely. I've been notified that I have won the Netherlands National Lottery and 250,000 euro.
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Donna Richoux filted:
[nq:2]Just some I've noticed around the internet. Some are amazingly ... useful figure I'm sure there are plenty more of course.[/nq]
[nq:1]Yeah, I post a list from time to time. Last time in December. "Mis-sayings" is a fairly compact name, better than anything I've come up with so far.[/nq]
When a lot of them come together like this, I think of them as "Trixies"
[nq:2]Just some I've noticed around the internet. Some are amazingly ... useful figure I'm sure there are plenty more of course.[/nq]
[nq:1]Yeah, I post a list from time to time. Last time in December. "Mis-sayings" is a fairly compact name, better than anything I've come up with so far.[/nq]
When a lot of them come together like this, I think of them as "Trixies"
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[nq:1]As a child I used to hear "Don't speak with your mouth open".[/nq]
In one volume of Spike Milligan's autobiographies, his Sergeant-Major admonishes him "Silence, when you're speaking to an officer".
GC
In one volume of Spike Milligan's autobiographies, his Sergeant-Major admonishes him "Silence, when you're speaking to an officer".
GC
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[nq:1]Don't talk with your mouth full.[/nq]
According to one account, that was first said in reply to "There's a hint of fall in the air".
Joe Fineman (Email Removed)
According to one account, that was first said in reply to "There's a hint of fall in the air".
Joe Fineman (Email Removed)
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[nq:2]"eat with one's mouth full"[/nq]
[nq:1]I don't see your objection there. "Don't eat with your mouth full" is a common parental admonition. Are you thinking of "in one mouthful," in one gulp?[/nq]
No, but many of the sites that mention the rule then explicitly go on to say that you should wait until you've swallowed before speaking!
[nq:2]"all **** went loose" "be on tender hooks"
[nq:1]I don't see your objection there. "Don't eat with your mouth full" is a common parental admonition. Are you thinking of "in one mouthful," in one gulp?[/nq]
No, but many of the sites that mention the rule then explicitly go on to say that you should wait until you've swallowed before speaking!
[nq:2]"all **** went loose" "be on tender hooks"
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