Subject: Malaprops

Malaprops:

The mistaken use of a word or words in place of a similar-sounding one – as in, television character Archie Bunker’s utterance of "birth patrol pills.” Here are some we’ve come across.

Ya better keep a civilian tongue in your head.

television character, All In the Family (Carroll O’Connor)
Communication Malaprops Speech

Well, that was a cliff-dweller.

professional baseball manager
Baseball Malaprops Sports

The way a doctor writes out a subscription.

television character, All In the Family (Carroll O’Connor)
Malaprops TV/Movie Quotes

Weekly filibooster

television character, All In the Family (Carroll O’Connor)
Malaprops TV/Movie Quotes

The titles are listed on the movie theater marquis.

Entertainment Malaprops

To my dear daughter Gloria Bunker … I leave my living room chair as a central piece in her someday living room.

television character, All In the Family (Carroll O’Connor)
Malaprops

Something bad has befelt the family.

television character, All In the Family (Carroll O’Connor)
Malaprops

She was as mad as a wet blanket.

(1908 – 1997) German-born teacher, academic & humorist
Anger Emotions Malaprops

Besmooch the family name in the eyes of the community.

television character, All In the Family (Carroll O’Connor)
Malaprops

Spanish Imposition.

television character, All In the Family (Carroll O’Connor)
Malaprops

The Frankincense Monster

Malaprops

I've been mostly camping and living in hostiles.

Malaprops Places

Like a bull into a china closet.

television character, All In the Family (Carroll O’Connor)
Malaprops

Keep your eye to the grindstone.

Malaprops

When you work the buttons here, see, it develops what ya call the digitalis skills.

television character, All In the Family (Carroll O’Connor)
Malaprops

That one kind of grapes on my nerves.

television character, All In the Family (Carroll O’Connor)
Malaprops

You ain’t got no qualifidations.

television character, All In the Family (Carroll O’Connor)
Malaprops TV/Movie Quotes

It ain't German to the conversation.

television character, All In the Family (Carroll O’Connor)
Malaprops

Their father is some kind of civil serpent.

Malaprops

Up there in his ivory shower.

television character, All In the Family (Carroll O’Connor)
Malaprops

Floods and diseases and pestillentaries.

television character, All In the Family (Carroll O’Connor)
Malaprops