Subject: Malaprops (Page 34)

Let sleeping ducks lie.

It’s a proven fact that capital punishment is a well-known detergent to crime.

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

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

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

You’ll be turned into a pillow of salt.

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

They tried to make me the escape goat.

… just to relieve the monopoly.

Both of my children had the chicken pops when they were young.

He’s got that big house to maintain in San Clemency.

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

I’ve had to overcome a lot of diversity.

professional basketball player

All girls go cockeyed during pooberescency.

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If that's something you expire to do.

Things started to snowplow.

professional baseball player

I have taken many of God's blessings for granite.

Funerereal

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You’re so nayve!

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Look at you, you’re white as a goat.

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

She has extra-century perception.

He was from Thailand or some other erotic place.

Early in the morning when the crows cock.

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They held a candlelight visual.