Subject: Malaprops (Page 6)

Holier than thy.

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

Are you getting the jest of this?

… baby lying in the bassinoot.

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

We heard the ocean is infatuated with sharks.

People are scared that the departed soul might be hoovering around some place.

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

[telling the story of Samson] He took a jawbone from the grass and slew the Palistine army.

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

Keep your eye to the grindstone.

You are a weirdwolf.

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

You never believe nuttin’, Edith. You’re of them septics.

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

Ya better keep a civilian tongue in your head.

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

It doesn’t endow me, to be honest.

English football player & manager

I ain’t got no respect for no religion where the head guy claims he can’t make no mistakes. Like he’s, waddya call, inflammable.

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

What’s all this fuss I’ve been hearing about conserving our natural racehorses?

(1946 – 1989) comedian & actress

They think they can do the portrait in one setting.

I got a unanimous letter

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

You’re the lowly pheasant with the job of keeping her here.

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

Lemon merinj pie.

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

That Meathead calls me a religious phonetic.

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

You could have knocked me down with the weather!

(1971 – ) American actress

You’re so nayve!

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

I’d say that the Meathead probably got magnesia and forgot where his mouth was.

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