Subject: Malaprops (Page 20)

Your honor, may I encroach the bench?

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

It’s all moth-eared.

This makes me so sore it gets my dandruff up.

(1879 – 1974) film producer

From the prairies, to the oceans, wide with foam.

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

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

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

Those people all corregated over there.

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)

Just 'cause there's snow in the basement don't mean there ain't no fire in the roof!

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

It’s in an upward spinal.

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

Ten bucks puts a whole different complexity on the situation.

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

Passed with flying carpets.

You got a very warfed sense of humor.

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

This was a very classy guy – in a sharp coat there, one of them velvet collars, and of of them pearl-gray hamburgers on his head.

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

All girls go cockeyed during pooberescency.

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

George Meaney, head of the UFO-CIA.

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

As youse people say, Sh-boom.

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

Probably a torn filament right there in the kneecap.

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

Don't be accusing me of taking a bribe. You know what they call that, definition of character.

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

Rip Van Heussen

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

To avoid misunderstanding, I’ll stop speaking formal English and just use the binocular.

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

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