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.

Look at you, you’re white as a goat.

television character, All In the Family (Carroll O’Connor)
Malaprops TV/Movie Quotes

Up at the crank of dawn.

(1905 – 1974) radio comedian
Malaprops Time

Maybe I oughta get one of them priests in to exercise with her.

television character, All In the Family (Carroll O’Connor)
Malaprops TV/Movie Quotes

The devil and all his nimps.

television character, All In the Family (Carroll O’Connor)
Malaprops TV/Movie Quotes

My uncle had a problem with his probate and he had to take these big pills and drink lots of water.

cartoon character in Who Framed Roger Rabbit? (Charles Fleischer)
Malaprops TV/Movie Quotes

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

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

Won by your distinguished incrumbent.

television character, All In the Family (Carroll O’Connor)
Malaprops TV/Movie Quotes

Are you getting the jest of this?

Malaprops

He’s got that big house to maintain in San Clemency.

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

I might just fade into Bolivian, you know what I mean?

(1966 – ) American boxing champion
Malaprops Places

The amount of education you have determines your loot in life.

Education Malaprops

Spanish Imposition.

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

I hate to leave in the middle of all this hillerarity.

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

He experienced some rectal breeding.

Malaprops

He was able to keep things in the proper suspective.

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

He looked very thin and emancipated.

Appearance Body Malaprops

Put your monkey where your mouth is.

Malaprops Money

Last will & tentacle

television character, All In the Family (Carroll O’Connor)
Malaprops TV/Movie Quotes

She had a seashore disorder.

Health Malaprops

I thought she had persisted from corresponding with him.

Malaprops

… baby lying in the bassinoot.

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