Subject: Malaprops (Page 25)

Talking to you is like casting pearls into wine.

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

So I won’t make the cover of Harper’s Brassiere.

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

She was as mad as a wet blanket.

(1908 – 1997) German-born teacher, academic & humorist
Anger Emotions Malaprops

You're making a mountain out of a Mohawk.

Malaprops

But what does he owe me for 5 years of bread and broad?

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

I let my prescription run out on that magazine.

Malaprops

… the Women’s Lubrication Movement.

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

… just to relieve the monopoly.

Malaprops Situations

Look at the two chimpanzoos over here.

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

The whole ball of worms

Malaprops

He once had a unbiblical hernia.

Health Malaprops

Waddya expect him to say, entray voose?

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

He’ll be coming back and back and back, like a chronicle rash.

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

We heard the sea is infatuated with sharks.

Animals Malaprops

comedian Flop Wilson

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

I've been mostly camping and living in hostiles.

Malaprops Places

I'm not the kind of person who wears his heart up his sleeve.

Malaprops

It's too late Edith, my bus has sailed.

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

Maybe my mind chewed off more than the mind should bite.

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

Corona-rary bypass.

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

I got a run in my neon stockings.

Clothing Malaprops