Flip of the Tongue, Part 3

The flips just keep coming. Here are some recent ones that got my attention. (Read the earlier flips here and here.)

Coral singing -- this one was in writing, of course, or I wouldn't have thought anything of it.

Flaw in the ointment -- I hardly noticed this one... it almost sounds correct!

Rod iron -- this can be attributed to the speaker using a term he's only heard, but never seen in writing. Or if he saw it in writing, he didn't realize it was the same thing.

Jumping through red tape -- part of a comment on a discussion forum, and the writer may have been using it ironically. But I still thought it was worth including for the wonderful visual image it provides.

And my personal favorite:

Henry Miller chair -- a friend was telling me that her husband had to have an ergonomic chair at work because of back problems. "They got him a Henry Miller chair," she said. The Herman Miller company might be interested to know that the writer of Tropic of Cancer and lover of Anais Nin is after their market share.