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.

He’s on 90… 10 away from that mythical figure.

British sports commentator
Malaprops Sports

Many nations adopt a tit for tit policy.

Malaprops

Absolutely free, or greatis.

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

German headshrinker named Sigmund Fruit.

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

It's a mute point.

Malaprops

When the whole neighborhood turns into a smelting pot.

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

Ya don’t have to soft soap me.

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

He’s shown a lack of inconsistency.

Malaprops Sports

He was recently diagnosed with prostrate cancer.

Health Malaprops

Up there in his ivory shower.

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

She tried to use reverse psychiatry on me.

Malaprops

An injured friend of his was going to receive back pay radioactively.

Malaprops Money Time

… create a little dysentery in the ranks.

Malaprops

The whole conjugation was asleep.

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

Their relationship was purely plutonic.

Malaprops Relationships

Another victim of the grim weeper.

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

A babysitter should at least be out of puberous.

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

Me and your mother ain’t no Duke or Duke-ess.

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

Like ships that clash in the night.

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

… the Women’s Lubrication Movement.

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

Who am I, Paul K. Getty?

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