Your Own Contribution to the English Language

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Re: Your Own Contribution to the English Language

Postby RebeccaRGB » Sun Feb 26, 2012 1:40 am UTC

Eugo wrote:Maybe I did invent some words, can't remember - but what I have somewhere in a file is this list of twisted, misconnected or otherwise mangled sayings.

2nd class struggle
a completely different kettle of worms
let whoever lives in a glass house cast the first stone
benefit of the shade of the doubt
our story takes place and time at...
life or death insurance
let's call it an afternoon
let's try and/or get it done by tomorrow
for the very first time after time and again.
observation makes you see things
he doesn't take no for an answer - he takes it for a walk/for a while/for a fool/to a dinner.
it only goes to show, but then can't find its way back
then the paramilitary band played a polka.
she shortchanged. into a miniskirt.
I'm a time warner. I warn when it's time.

Hey diddle diddle, the cat and the fiddler on a hot tin roof?
Stephen Hawking: Great. The entire universe was destroyed.
Fry: Destroyed? Then where are we now?
Al Gore: I don't know. But I can darn well tell you where we're not—the universe!
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