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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: sinkspur

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


LOL! That's a good one. I should use that at work someday.


104 posted on 08/10/2006 6:03:46 PM PDT by jocon307 (The Silent Majority - silent no longer)
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