Who do you think you are, some kind of hexagon of virtue?.

The food in our cafeteria is so bad it’s not fit for human constipation.Too many Americans lead a sedimentary life.The marriage was consummated on the altar.The fun and excitement of childhood are nothing compared to the fun and excitement of adultery.Senators are chosen as committee chairmen on the basis of senility.The only sure-fire way to avoid teenage pregnancy is through obstinance.I took up aerobics to help maintain my well-propositioned figure.The mountain is named for the Reverend Starr King, who was an invertebrate climber.In Venice, the people travel around the canals in gorgonzolas.If you wish to submit a recipe for publication in the cookbook, please include a short antidote concerning it.Here are some more malapropisms (all real, not fictional!). “If I reprehend anything in this world it is the use of my oracular tongue, and a nice derangement of epitaphs!”.“She’s as headstrong as an allegory on the banks of Nile”.Illiterate him, I say, quite from your memory.It was a comedy of manners and the character Mrs. Then, in 1775, an Irish playright introduced a character named Mrs. William Shakespeare often used malapropisms for humor in his comedies (example, the character of Dogberry in his 1598 play, Much Ado About Nothing). And then there was the gastrointestinal patient who apparently got confused on the word “spectrum” and said of a beautiful sunset, “It had all the colors of the rectum.”.”.Another was said to have told a counselor that she couldn’t have a sexually transmitted disease because, despite a recent “falling down,” both she and her husband were unfailingly “monotonous.”.One woman told us that she was going through “mental pause,” before adding that her husband had quit smoking, “cold duck.” (Did she mean that he had quit drinking Cold Duck?).A longtime Navy man was once reported to have died from “sea roaches of the liver.”.Hospital “sightings” have included “old timer’s disease,” “prostrate cancer,” “chickenpops,” “smiling mighty Jesus” (for spinal meningitis), and “65 roses” (for cystic fibrosis).Another friend claimed her boyfriend “took her for granite.”.Yep, a colleague of ours once noted that she preferred “decapitated coffee.”.Here are some more examples of malapropisms that illustrate the meaning: About the People Who Drink Decapitated Coffeee The word “malapropism” comes from the French mal a propos, meaning “not appropriate.” (Note that that root word mal means “ill” or “bad.”) Father’s Day 2023: What to Do on Father’s Day

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