Subject: Malaprops (Page 20)

So I started giving her mouth to mouth restitution, there.

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You don’t hear me gettin’ historical.

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He had to use a fire distinguisher.

Just keep hanging your steamers over there. You’re the one who got me into this whole expensive party here.

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Off-the-docks Jews.

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Fires and grimstones of hell.

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Oh graytin potatoes

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The upper part, waddya call, the mezzarine.

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I hate to leave in the middle of all this hillerarity.

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My doctor tells me I got a communications disease.

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When ya go out there in the water and ya start crossing your longirudes and lassitudes.

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I'll bet she has her clothes made by Orville, the tent maker.

Your mother's down there throwing a monkey wrench into the halls of justice.

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I thought she had persisted from corresponding with him.

I haven’t seen him for donkey’s ears!

Nice quiet, waddya call, stablishment.

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Use a little of your horse's sense.

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

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She's as headstrong as an allegory on the banks of Nile.

I suffer from a deviant septum.

I don’t go around signin’ no political documentaries.

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