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To: sinkspur

May I add 'grow your business' to that list?

Also, painful malapropisms that are never caught (by the speaker) and used over and over. 'Flying by the skin of my teeth,' for example, courtesy of my office.


34 posted on 08/10/2006 12:14:47 PM PDT by RubyCosmos (I once frightened Tony Almeida by dressing as a Hogwarts student.)
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To: RubyCosmos
Also, painful malapropisms that are never caught (by the speaker) and used over and over. 'Flying by the skin of my teeth,' for example, courtesy of my office.

I actually heard an HR manager once tell a group of people in one of my client's offices:

"Now, I don't want to make idle threats, but I will if I have to."

41 posted on 08/10/2006 12:17:44 PM PDT by sinkspur (Today, we settled all family business.)
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To: RubyCosmos

Not exactly a malapropism, but one idiot I used to work with added "-and s**t like that" to every sentence and statement. He even did that when discussing his own mother's funeral! We used to call him 'And S**t Like That' behind his back.


50 posted on 08/10/2006 12:23:05 PM PDT by kaylar
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