Subject: Malaprops (Page 33)

So finally, the great Jefferson, who always reclined to cross my freshhold is into the house.

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

It’s only the mercy of the Lord I ain’t had a stroke already – and a coronary trombonus in the bargain.

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

Brudder, you got a preposition and that thing will give you a conclusion of the brain.

cartoon character (Mel Blanc)

And that's the crutch of the situation.

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

Have no delusions about the past.

[to the doctor] How about what I done for you in the bottle there? Ya know, the eulogy test.

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

It ain’t German to the conversation. It ain’t supposed to make sense; it’s faith. Faith is something that you believe that nobody in his right mind would believe.

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

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

Smells like some kind if saniquarium.

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

If you was eavesdripping, that there is a very defensive thing to do.

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

Let’s go to lunch, I'm emancipated!

New mother… they get a sense of waddya call, the maternals.

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

You could have knocked me down with a fender.

(1905 – 1974) radio comedian

Welcome to our home; and as youse people say "shaboom."

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

I'm a man. Men have got another thing… they got waddya call, a carnival instinctuals.

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

Uh, no intense offended there.

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

Growing up the trellis were pink and yellow concubines.

When you’re workin’ with invalids there, especially a lotta kinda decrapid old people.

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

Ain’t ya never heard silence is gold?

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

Don’t talk like an ignarosis.

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

My uncle died of Lou Sterrett's disease.