That's not how the saying goes!

[DC2]

Okay, so I'll admit it is a pet peeve of mine...

So often I see people using sayings incorrectly, or more often simply using the wrong words when trying to use those sayings.
And it drives me freaking nuts!!

I want to correct them, but apparently some people don't like to be corrected.
That is something I will never understand.


Anyway, when I see someone butchering a saying, I am going to come over here and post it.
Finally I will have a place to release this pent up frustration before it boils over into a postal episode!


Another real problem I have is people using a fancy word when they don't even know how to spell it.
But I'll save that one for another thread.

 

[DC2]

So we're going to start this off with this one I read just a few minutes ago...

WRONG: Coming down the pipe
RIGHT: Coming down the pike

 

[classwife]

WRONG: A tough road to hoe


really...?



RIGHT: A tough row to hoe

 

[VAPOINSANO]

coming down the pipe i seen a tuff hoe on the row !

i went & hid in the bushes!

Classy

 

[DaveP]

I could care less!

No you couldn't ...

You couldn't care less!

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My pet peeve is when someone responds to a valid explanation of a complicated point with ...

I heard that!

Actually they did; they just didn't understand it and don't know how to respond.

 

[FantWriter]

"I could care less" started as "As if I could care less." The usage changed so the "as if" was implied. That's fine verbally because the inflection can make that implication obvious. Such is not true of it in writing.

The one that really gets to me, although it isn't a complete phrase, per se, is: should of. It's "should have."
Verbally, it's shortened to "should've" which is perfectly correct.
The problem comes when people are mindless in their writing.

 

[Mac]

Quit lunchboxing my cigarette! I said you could take a drag, not turn it into a giant ember!

The keyword here is HOTBOX.

 

[Mac]

I need a 5 pack of cartlidges!

 

[Doublexl85]

A bird in the hand shouldn't throw stones.
People in glass houses should get dressed with the lights off.
If you don't have anything nice to say, you're probably talking to my relatives
Don't bite of more then you can afford
When in Rome, don't drink the water

No lets make like a tree and get the $*%& out of here.

 

[SilverBear]

I need a 5 pack of cartlidges!

Another vaping-related one here:

http://www.e-cigarette-forum.com/forum/lounge/153977-what-words-annoy-you-40.html#post6509165

 

[Mac]

Another vaping-related one here:

http://www.e-cigarette-forum.com/forum/lounge/153977-what-words-annoy-you-40.html#post6509165

Loaded with win..

 

[DC2]

Oh, no way, I just saw this in a post...

WRONG: Kicked to the curve
RIGHT: Kicked to the curb

Really?

 

[ohai]

I used this in the other thread, but it belongs here , too:

"intensive purposes"

No.

 

[Mac]

Do you guys sell the new rebuild-able itemizer? I need to some of the menthol oils too.

 

[DC2]

"intensive purposes"

Just to make sure people reading this get an opportunity to learn something...

WRONG: For all intensive purposes
RIGHT: For all intents and purposes

 

[ohai]

Just to make sure people reading this get an opportunity to learn something...

WRONG: For all intensive purposes
RIGHT: For all intents and purposes

Oh bother, I don't care if they learn something- if they say "intensive purposes", they need to just stop talking altogether.

(I kid. I kid because I'm hateful and like to needle.)

But here's another:

Pass time (wrong) vs. Past time (still wrong) vs. Pastime (right)

as in:

It's past time for people to understand that you pass time with a pastime.

 

[ohai]

If you don't have anything nice to say, you're probably talking to my relatives

This one should be:

If you don't have anything nice to say, come sit next to me.

 

[DC2]

Someone today posted that after buying good equipment it was all "uphill" from here.
Ouch. Nothing much more that I can say about that one.

 

[DC2]

WRONG: Mute point
RIGHT: Moot point

 

[DC2]

WRONG: Peak someone's interest
RIGHT: Pique someone's interest