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I don't know if these are really malapropisms, but on another thread someone is talking about driving with 'undue care and attention'. This is one of my favourites together with 'mute point' and 'without further adieu'.
Any others to cheer up a snowy April(!) afternoon?
Any others to cheer up a snowy April(!) afternoon?
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.The 'You've got another thing / think coming' argument got played out over and over again in our house. Each camp brought forward arguments and evidence to back up their version, but the official concensus is either is equally right / wrong, but I've never seen anyone who thinks their version is right agree with the other one. If you google it half the world is arguing about it lol.
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A man rang me to ask " R . E. " my field for grazing. Now, I'd never written " re" any grazing, so this reading of "re" as R.E. must have been his own.
But if you want legal mistakes and mis-hearings, my favourite is my ex brother-in-law's "who buried my fido", later abbreviated by him to 'the dead dog rule', for "uberrimae fide" which means "in the utmost honesty or faith". (It's the insurance rule that the insured must declare everything affecting the risk whether asked for or not). And my brother-in-law not only qualified as a solicitor but got what he called "an extinction" (a distinction) in conveyancing. See? Latin is not essential in law (though using a few tags and phrases might impress clients and improve the fee)
But if you want legal mistakes and mis-hearings, my favourite is my ex brother-in-law's "who buried my fido", later abbreviated by him to 'the dead dog rule', for "uberrimae fide" which means "in the utmost honesty or faith". (It's the insurance rule that the insured must declare everything affecting the risk whether asked for or not). And my brother-in-law not only qualified as a solicitor but got what he called "an extinction" (a distinction) in conveyancing. See? Latin is not essential in law (though using a few tags and phrases might impress clients and improve the fee)
No, Wharton, I get on very well with both my exes, and their brothers. But this one (brother of ex 1) has always impressed by his practical, no nonsense, approach to law at the real grass roots level. He must save his lay clients thousands. As you might guess, he was like that as a student, but secretely is, and was, a very good lawyer in academic terms.
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