Subject: Malaprops (Page 20)

Hot flushes and mentalpause.

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

Rome wasn't burned in a day.

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

I suffer from a deviant septum.

I’d say that the Meathead probably got magnesia and forgot where his mouth was.

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

That ain’t superstition – that’s self-perservation.

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

Feed a cold, starve for pizza. Starve a pizza, eat cold feet.

(1971 – ) American actress

I want to hear it so quiet we can hear a mouse dropping.

(1897 – 1960) Russian-born American film director, actor & producer

Wild hornets couldn’t drag me there.

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

Corona-rary bypass.

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

The printer is out of order – sorry for the incontinence.

I’ve never seen a man so low and depaved.

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

Our ship was caught in a typhoid.

What ya eat ain't got nuttin' to do with how old ya are. That all depends on your ancestors. It's what they call a matter of heresy.

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

Ten bucks puts a whole different complexity on the situation.

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

Funerereal

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

Remember Pearl Island.

You’re trying to give him goremets dinners.

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

Something’s rotten in the state of Denver.

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

Just 'cause there's snow in the basement don't mean there ain't no fire in the roof!

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

Print the bulletins and get the information decimated.

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