Subject: Malaprops (Page 32)

She's as headstrong as an allegory on the banks of Nile.

Doctors told me that if my uncle had lived, he most likely would have been a vegetarian.

I ain’t no counterfeeter.

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

Tell her I ain’t crawlin’ home to her with my tail between her legs.

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

Dreams do come through.

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

Weekly filibooster

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

Senatorial, governorial, mayororial

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

It’s only supposed to take off a little microscope at a time.

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

They tried to make me the escape goat.

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)

Mother Superiority

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

You could have knocked me down with a fender.

(1905 – 1974) radio comedian

I'm not a pessimist, I'm an optometrist.

There's more than one way to spin a rat.

We drove around and looked at some apartments, and then we looked at some condoms.

It ain't German to the conversation.

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

Like in that picture, “The Prince & The Porpoise.”

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

I want to make a picture about the Russian secret police – the GOP.

(1879 – 1974) film producer

I’m half prostate in the heat.

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

Put your monkey where your mouth is.