A Flip of the Tongue

Through the years, I have personally heard (or proofread) many mispoken phrases. Some could more properly be called malapropisms, others mixed metaphors, but whatever the specifics, they just crack me up. Here are few.

• He's an old hat at it
• Loaded like a bear
• Pull the wool out from under the rug
• Get off my face
• It's no skin off my back
• Left him out to dry
• They're still green behind the ears
• In the manor to which I have become accustomed
• Dyed and true
  

These would perhaps be better recognized as...

• He's an old hand at it (combined with "It's old hat to him")
  
• Loaded for bear
• Pull the wool over someone's eyes (combined with "pull the rug out from under someone")
  
• Get out of my face
• It's no skin off my nose (possibly combined with "like water off a duck's back"?)
  
• Hung him out to dry (combined with "left him out in the cold")
  
• They're still wet behind the ears (combined with the equation of "green" with inexperience)
  
• In the manner to which I have become accustomed
• Tried and true (combined with "dyed in the wool")

I'll post more of these from time to time as I stumble across them.