Subject: Malaprops (Page 19)

Dad says the monster is just a pigment of my imagination.

Yankin’ out the tonsils and the adenoods.

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

When you work the buttons here, see, it develops what ya call the digitalis skills.

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

I am sorry to say that my affluence over my niece is very small.

The rules are written by the bureaucraps.

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

I’ve got a tooth that’s driving me to extraction.

ventriloquist dummy of Edgar Bergen (1903 – 1978)

Why don’t you take a high dive into the clam drip?

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

I guess you could say I'm an internal optometrist.

Just try to restract his attention.

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

Paragorically, I will not let you ever talk about our sex life.

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

I’d say that the Meathead probably got magnesia and forgot where his mouth was.

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

She’s suffering from a detached rectum.

Up the creek without a saddle.

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

Well, that was a cliff-dweller.

professional baseball manager

I'm on the horns of an enema.

(1971 – ) American actress

It’s too caustic, said a director, when asked his opinion of a script.

Goldwyn: To hell with the cost, if it’s a good picture, we’ll make it.

(1879 – 1974) film producer

This is a Jewish cake – they give this to a Jewish kid before he gets circumscribed.

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

Take a cruise down to the Virgin’s Island.

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

What is all this talk about the Supreme Court decision on a deaf penalty?

(1946 – 1989) comedian & actress

Like ships that clash in the night.

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

Let sleeping ducks lie.