We often end up using phrases that make no sense! Let’s talk about them today.
A netizen recently asked, “What is a common phrase you found out you were saying wrong the whole time?”. Below are the top responses!
TO EACH HIS OWN
“Not me but my husband; he uses the phrase ‘To Eat Chizone’ when he meant to say ‘To Each His Own.'”
DOG EAT DOG WORLD
“My ex said this the other day, ‘It’s a doggy dog world,’ I fell out laughing.”, said one.
“Wait, what? What is the actual phrase, then? I’ve been saying this my whole life. I need to re-evaluate the company I keep because not one of these fake people has ever corrected me!” another added.
PER SE
“I had college students who would write ‘per say’ instead of ‘per se.’ It drove me crazy.”
VICARIOUSLY
“Once, instead of ‘living vicariously,’ I said I was ‘living bi-curiously.'”
HYPERBOLE
“I had a customer say hyper bowl in a sentence.”, said one.
“If they meant ‘hyperbole,’ it may have been from only seeing it in writing and never having heard it spoken,” another added.
CINNAMON
“I would go round and round with my ex-wife about the word cinnamon, and she would say ‘cimnanmin’.”
SPITE AND MALICE
“Not me, but my grandmother taught me a card game when I was a kid called ‘spitting molasses,’ a very competitive game that I came to love.
Years later, I remembered most of the rules but not the name of the game and wanted to start playing again. I searched, only to eventually find out the game is called ‘Spite and Malice.'”
BONA FIDES
“Bona fides. I thought that the correct pronunciation of Fides was ‘Clydes,’ but it’s actually ‘fee-days.'”
DIABETES
“Not me necessarily, but people say ‘diabetus’ instead of ‘diabetes.’ It triggers me.”
LOOKING TO GET A HORSE IN THE MOUTH
“Looking to get a horse in the mouth. I thought it was ‘look a gift horse in the mouth.’ I assumed this new horse didn’t like to be looked at.
AWHILE
“I always used to write ‘awhile.’ I recently discovered the difference between ‘awhile’ and ‘a while.’ Thanks, Google!”
TAKEN FOR GRANTED
“I had to gently tell one of my son’s friends that it’s ‘taken for granted,’ not ‘taken for granite.’”
I COULDN’T CARE LESS
“Most people say ‘I could care less,’ but that implies you care a little. It’s supposed to be ‘I couldn’t care less’.”
RULE OF THUMB
“I’m a content writer, and I recently had to do a rewrite on a client’s website, and they’d written ‘rule of thump’ instead of ‘rule of thumb.'”
PLAY IT BY EAR
“Play it by ear. I thought it was ‘played by year’ (like give it some time).”
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