Subject: Malaprops (Page 15)

You never believe nuttin’, Edith. You’re of them septics.

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

All your friends are gonna be green with envious.

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

Why don’t you take a high dive into the clam drip?

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

It's a mute point.

[telling the story of Samson] He took a jawbone from the grass and slew the Palistine army.

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

A rolling stone gathers no moths.

That's a hog of a different color.

Funerereal

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

Did you watch the space shovel take off?

a menstrual show

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

I'm not a pessimist, I'm an optometrist.

It’s too caustic, said a director, when asked his opinion of a script.

Goldwyn: To hell with the cost, if it’s a good picture, we’ll make it.

(1879 – 1974) film producer

He’s a wolf in cheap clothing.

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

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

We were young: college students, we were full of vim and vinegar.

You’re a chimp off the old block.

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

Our ship was caught in a typhoid.

OK, if you can get an indepartial judge.

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

I wanna read ya something right out of the allamac.

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

It's got lots of installation.

Left hand, right hand, it doesn’t matter, I’m amphibious.

professional basketball player