Flips of the Tongue, 2026

I think it's time for a funny usage post. These are things I've heard or seen written, usually in social media comments. These days, sometimes it can be hard to tell if the person who wrote them made a mistake (whether a typo or a complete mistake) or if it was an intentional joke.  

But here goes anyway:

• Sent by a friend last summer, regarding Iran's attack on Israel: "The world has shifted on its access."  . 
• "A broken record is right twice a day" (extemporaneous spoken words).
• "Right on queue." I'm not sure where I saw this.
• "Making their ends meet" (said by the owner of a child care center, speaking as a source on child care expenses on a Minnesota Public Radio story)
• "Cars-carrying white MAGAts." I'm not sure where I saw this. It's clearly just a typo, but the image of white MAGA devotees carrying cars is pretty sweet.
• "The supper rich." Reported by Anne Billson on BlueSky, as seen on Twitter.

There were two from Facebook:

• "One fowl swoop" (a comment made by someone in my hometown group)
• "Run rock shod" 

And a lot from BlueSky, where I spend so much time:

• "The cutely is the point." (This was someone trying to cite Adam Serwer.)
• Someone made reference to a "Venmo diagram." Some users of Venmo could use a diagram, I'm sure.
• "Sending all the smaller law firms under the boss" 
• There should have been "full throttled condemnation." 
• "The cannery in the coal mines" (okay, that one is really funny)
• "When it came down to brass tax" 
• "He’s no rocket surgeon" 

 Brass tax, rocket surgeons, Venmo diagrams. Maybe the Minnesota laser loon does fowl swoops?