Collect malapropisms and funny sayings

wracking my brain for another one, the only thing I have at the moment is the kid who was writing a report on redback spiders for a dangerous Australian animals unit we were doing wrote “the redback spider is not incest”

from WyvernDust’s post: May 6, 2009

when my nephew was about three years old
he asked my mother, “How did you get olded?”

http://www.43things.com/entries/view/4030571#comment3299948

My students often say….
“He couldn’t hear because he was death.”

:O)

strickly speaking this isn’t a Malaproprism, but it always made me chuckle. My ex would always confuse the Skippy song and the Flipper song and would sing Flipper the bush kangeroo!

And my poor daft mum never could say the word specific, she would always say pacific or pacifically instead. Talk about making an ocean out of a mole hill,lol.

delicious (deciduous) trees

which, apparently were ‘tampons grow into frogs’.....

uttered by my then 10 year old daughter as she held a painfully swollen big toe, which had been stung by a bee inside a fallen mauve jacaranda blossom upon which she had stood.

Not bad for a ten year old to confuse inflated/ inflamed. (And, truth to say, it WAS rather swollen!)

It must have been in October because that is when the jacaranda blooms fall.

A wonderfully delicious, sweet malapropism invented by JadedForever’s mother – for grandchild.

Should be entered into the dictionary.