Subject: Malaprops

Malaprops:

The mistaken use of a word or words in place of a similar-sounding one – as in, television character Archie Bunker’s utterance of "birth patrol pills.” Here are some we’ve come across.

It was a very heart-rendering story.

Emotions Malaprops

We were young: college students, we were full of vim and vinegar.

Malaprops

Please excuse Timmy from school Friday. He has very loose vowels.

Health Malaprops

To my dear daughter Gloria Bunker … I leave my living room chair as a central piece in her someday living room.

television character, All In the Family (Carroll O’Connor)
Malaprops

Around here, it's always feast or phantom.

Malaprops

He was a very immortal person.

Characteristics Malaprops

Texas has a lot of electrical votes.

(1925 – 2015) baseball player, coach & manager
Government Malaprops Places Yogi-isms

… create a little dysentery in the ranks.

Malaprops

It's a proven fact that capital punishment is a well-known detergent to crime.

television character, All In the Family (Carroll O’Connor)
Crime Malaprops

That picture with Lon Chaney – “Of Mouse And Men.”

television character, All In the Family (Carroll O’Connor)
Malaprops

Go to the gyropractor and get fixed?

television character, All In the Family (Carroll O’Connor)
Health Malaprops

Committing insex in the family.

television character, All In the Family (Carroll O’Connor)
Malaprops

So I started giving her mouth to mouth restitution, there.

television character, All In the Family (Carroll O’Connor)
Malaprops

You’re everywhere. You’re omnivorous.

cartoon character in The Simpsons (Dan Castellaneta)
Malaprops TV/Movie Quotes

A horse divided against itself cannot stand.

Malaprops

I like a lot of partisan cheese on my pizza.

Food/Drink Malaprops

I just don’t want you to do nothing on the sperm of the moment.

television character, All In the Family (Carroll O’Connor)
Malaprops

Photostatic memory

Malaprops

I'm going to hold my breast until I turn blue.

(1971 – ) American actress
Malaprops TV/Movie Quotes

What’d ya do, sneak off to some chyropractor and get yourself fixed?

television character, All In the Family (Carroll O’Connor)
Malaprops

I’m completely uninhabited.

(1905 – 1974) radio comedian
Characteristics Malaprops