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?
Oh, you've reminded me of a favourite malapropism.
I once got a secondhand copy of Michael Ondaatje's The Collected Works of Billy the Kid (poems), and the last owner - a Korean student reading this book for class - had jotted in the margins of the death poem, after Billy's been shot and is contemplating the whole scene, "These are his thoughts in the last minuets of his life."
One typo.
So much added poetry. :)