It's been more than a year since my last post that listed the flips of the tongue I've accumulated. I've been trying to note where I read or heard them, but I see that I sometimes missed it.
I admit that several of these are probably typos, autocorrects, or thinkos, rather than slips or eggcorns. But they're still fun, so here they are.
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A spoken miscombination: Too many bones in the pile (too many irons in the fire combined with, perhaps, a bone to pick?).
This one, from a letter to the editor in the Pioneer Press, got past the copy editor. (What do they do with their time?) If everyone wore masks in stores, it “would create a tripping point” in improving COVID outcomes.
From a Twitter user: We have to get down to brass tax.
During the aftermath of the Jacob Blake shooting in Kenosha, someone on Facebook referred to violet rioters. I know that people who proclaim they're not racist are fond of saying they don't see color and don't care if someone is black, white, or purple, but I think this phrasing was not intentional.
From a Twitter comment whose context I've lost, unfortunately, so I'm not sure if it was an autocorrect or sarcastic, but in the original I think it seemed like a straight error: Sociopath-economic class (instead of socio-economic class).
More red meat, this time from a Facebook joke about houseplants. Q: What do you do with a plant that doesn’t have enough roots to support its height? A: plant it lower down and add a steak.
The pandemic has created a glutton of office space.
Daughter Number Three-Point-One sent me a text to report she had just used the phrase pull the wool out from under you.
It wasn’t any skin off our teeth. (I'm not sure where I heard that. Maybe on MPR?)
This one on Twitter was probably an autocorrect, but it's still read funny: skill sets became skillets. They don't have the skillets to do that job!
On Twitter, there's no such thing as a boon, I guess: It’s a boom for national corporations.
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Past flips of the tongue:
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