Subject: Malaprops (Page 32)

My husband went to Radio Shack and got some dog ears for the TV.

It’s a point or setter plant.

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

I wasn’t under the impersonation you meant me.

(1905 – 1974) radio comedian

Let’s go to lunch, I'm emancipated!

We wanted to help the indiguous people of the country.

This is what I spent all those years learning my ABDs for?

(1971 – ) American actress

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

You think I just drove in from Long Island on a load of turnips?

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

Rome wasn’t born in a day.

professional baseball player

Fires and grimstones of hell.

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

If he don’t go calling the cops “pigs” or one of those other epilets…

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

You're making a mountain out of a Mohawk.

I'm going to the store to buy a soup latrine.

You’re everywhere. You’re omnivorous.

cartoon character in The Simpsons (Dan Castellaneta)

I was beaming at the seams!

What a messy house. How can they live in such squander.

I will perish this trophy forever.

professional baseball player

Beat your tambourines with the Hairy Knishes.

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

Cut the biblical cord.

Here’s a last bequest: I don’t want that guy sayin’ my last urology.

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

The perferator of the crime was apprehended by the police.