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.

He was in cardial arrest.

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My uncle died of Lou Sterrett's disease.

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… geronomous zones and the floorplay, you spoil all the waddya call the mystiqueries of things.

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

I ain’t got no respect for no religion where the head guy claims he can’t make no mistakes. Like he’s, waddya call, inflammable.

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

I was under the dress.

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

Like ships that clash in the night.

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

I could get blackbusted.

television character, All In the Family (Carroll O’Connor)
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What are you incinerating?

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Isn't that an expensive pendulum round that woman's neck?

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I can syncronize with those homeless people.

Malaprops

… to love and to cherish, till death do us apart.

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I’ll bring ya a bottle of champagne. Maybe I’ll even bring home a whole maggot.

television character, All In the Family (Carroll O’Connor)
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They tried to make me the escape goat.

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“Let ’em eat cake,” to quote the late Mark Antonette.

television character, All In the Family (Carroll O’Connor)
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You're like the pessimist, who looks at his pants and thinks they're half empty. You should be more like the optometrist, who looks through his glasses and thinks they're half full.

(1971 – ) American actress
Malaprops TV/Movie Quotes

Yankin’ out the tonsils and the adenoods.

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

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

… create a little dysentery in the ranks.

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Corona-rary bypass.

television character, All In the Family (Carroll O’Connor)
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These cigars are the nectarines of the gods.

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

There is no pancreas to the whole world's problems.

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