Thursday, June 12, 2008

Flip of the Tongue, Part 6

Five nuns praying, one with thought balloon that says We're trying!A few more mangled usage examples I have come across to go with the earlier eggcorns:

Try to make amens -- I love this one, because it brings together the idea that making amends is almost a religious (or more loosely construed, moral) obligation.

Gay as a doorknob -- One of my daughter's friends was watching Project Runway and pronounced this succinct assessment of one of the designers.

Ahead of the curb -- This was on the comments from a blog. The writer was talking about Apple being ahead of the curve with the iPhone. Guess being ahead of the curb is better than being kicked to the curb.

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