- “decapitated coffee.”
- “he takes me for granite.”
- “prostrate cancer”
- “chickenpops”
- "Does the printshop do lemonading?"
- "Avoid him, he smokes marinara"
- "Shoplifters will be prostituted"
- "When I hugged him, I could smell his colon"
- "Card only, no cashback' sorry for the incontinence"
- "The project was on euthanasia not youth in Asia!!" (technically a monde green we may come to those)
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Yet More Malapropisms
More Malapropisms
- 'Going off on a tandem'
- 'The world is your lobster, my son' Arthur Daley.
- 'I'm as happy as a sandbag'
- 'A bit of a damp squid'
- 'He eludes confidence'
- 'It's not rocket fuel'
- 'If I don't want to serve someone, that is my provocative'
- 'Chocolate peripherals'
- 'Cordelia is a paragon of goodness and finial loyalty'
- T'he officers surrounded the square in a great show of consubstantial force'
Original Malapropisms
Here are some of the original malapropisms from Mrs. Malaprop who appears in Richard B Sheridan's play The Rivals (1775).
- "...promise to forget this fellow - to illiterate him, I say, quite from your memory." [obliterate]
- "O, he will dissolve my mystery!" [resolve]
- "He is the very pine-apple of politeness!" [pinnacle]
- "I have since laid Sir Anthony's preposition before her;" [proposition]
- "Oh! it gives me the hydrostatics to such a degree."[hysterics]
- "I hope you will represent her to the captain as an object not altogether illegible." [ineligible]
- "...she might reprehend the true meaning of what she is saying." [comprehend]
- "...she's as headstrong as an allegory on the banks of Nile." [alligator]
- "I am sorry to say, Sir Anthony, that my affluence over my niece is very small." [influence]
- "Why, murder's the matter! slaughter's the matter! killing's the matter! - but he can tell you the perpendiculars." [particulars]
- "Nay, no delusions to the past - Lydia is convinced;" [allusions]
- "...behold, this very day, I have interceded another letter from the fellow;" [intercepted]
- "I thought she had persisted from corresponding with him;" [desisted]
- "His physiognomy so grammatical!" [phraseology]
- "I am sure I have done everything in my power since I exploded the affair;" [exposed]
- "I am sorry to say, she seems resolved to decline every particle that I enjoin her." [article]
- "...if ever you betray what you are entrusted with... you forfeit my malevolence for ever..." [benevolence]
- "Your being Sir Anthony's son, captain, would itself be a sufficient accommodation;" [recommendation]
- "Sure, if I reprehend any thing in this world it is the use of my oracular tongue, and a nice derangement of epitaphs!" [apprehend, vernacular, arrangement, epithets]
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