Okay folks. Question time!
What's your favourite malapropism?
Today I learned that "spitting image" is a malapropism! But we're not sure if it comes from "spit and image" (from "he's the very spit of..." someone else), or - and I think this makes more sense - *spirit and image*, deformed over time. But so many forms have been used, no one knows for sure!
Other fun ones:
On tender hooks ("tenterhooks")
A Freudian slip is when you say one thing but you mean your mother.
What's your favourite?
@MLClark At first, the only one I could think of was "taken for granite" and that only because of a Rick & Morty episode I watched. But I started Googling, and was reminded of the recurring Weekend Update character Emily Litella. The malapropism I most remember there was ""I Will Swallow Him" ("I love him, I love him, I love him, and where he goes I'll swallow, I'll swallow, I'll swallow . . . .".😄
HOMGOSH I spit coffee while reading that. 😂
I don't think I'm ever going to hear that song the same way again. THANK YOU... I think?!
@MLClark When Gilda was performing the character with Chevy Chase, I gather her malapropisms were more sympathetically received. With Jane Curtin, though, the reception was decidedly more frosty - and Litella would usually reply "Bitch!"😏