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.

Corona-rary bypass.

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

We were like two ships sinking in the night.

Malaprops

She's really tough; she's remorseful

English runner
Malaprops

One of the funniest antidotes of all time.

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

handle him with kids’ gloves

Malaprops

Yeah, we’re really sick, Mom! I think we have Monte Cristo’s Revenge!

(1971 – ) American actress
Malaprops TV/Movie Quotes

They tried to make me the escape goat.

Malaprops

Who do you think I bunk into?

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

I'll bet she has her clothes made by Orville, the tent maker.

Malaprops

It’s a point or setter plant.

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

I suffer from a deviant septum.

Health Malaprops

Committing insex in the family.

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

The titles are listed on the movie theater marquis.

Entertainment Malaprops

Wouldn't let 'em get in a word wedgewise.

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

Ya gotta watch out for that rigididness; it’ll warf your personality.

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

The rules are written by the bureaucraps.

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

Everybody had some antidotes to tell.

Malaprops Speech

Stick it all right into that bank suppository.

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

The upper part, waddya call, the mezzarine.

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

If God gets sore enough at you Edith, he could turn your jawbone into an ass.

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

Uh, no intense offended there.

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