You've Got Another Think...

My latest rabbit trail really had me fleshing out the details of eggcorns. What are eggcorns? Once upon a time, a woman called an acorn, an "eggcorn." This word actually described the shape of an acorn and thus eggcorn became the accepted term to describe a misheard phrase with words that still could make sense. Thus, I am fleshing out the details not flushing out.  

Now before you tell me that is a bold-faced lie, it is not. It would actually be a bald-faced lie if it were not true. Bald-faced meaning bare, uncovered, exposed face. 

I hope you are not chomping at the bit about this because the correct phrase is champing at the bit, as in a horse gnawing on his bit. 

Have I piqued your interest? It's not peaked. 

Are you waiting for the next one with bated breath? Thank goodness not baited breath--that would be wormy. 

Many think we are honing in on things here and yes, we are sharpening the details, but it was originally homing in, such as homing pigeons or radar signals. 

I hope you don't think I am trying to give you a piece of my mind. I am in favor of peace of mind, as it should be.

I really am not expecting you to toe the line, which is like the military line up, obeying and not towing which would be pulling.

While you are reading this, I hope you aren't butt naked. The proper term is buck naked. And if you are buck naked, is it because you have old-timer's disease aka Alzheimer's disease? Similarly, this all isn't old wise tales, if it were, it would be old wives' tales. 

You may think you are a shoe-in to win if the shoe fits, but actually it's shoo-in as the jockey's used to "shoo" the horse in at the finish line. 

I know these terms aren't of the upmost importance to you--they should be of the utmost importance. I do hope you find them awe-inspiring as opposed to all inspiring.

Regardless of what you think, it's not irregardless which is a double negative and it's not on accident. It would be by accident. I hope you don't want to extract revenge on me because of this post--as in extracting juice out of a lemon. No, you would be exacting revenge. I hope instead, you find this awe-inspiring, not all inspiring. 

Now there is no statue of limitations--I'm not sure what that would look like. It's statute of limitations.

If you think you are suffering from hunger pains, the original phrase was hunger pangs. 

Perhaps you may think I should of, would of, could of let this alone, but I had to correct it to should've, would've or could've. 

There are plenty more I found in my research but no one had the one my son invented when he was young. When playing a game and having to a name an attractive vegetable, he came up with cute cumber, not knowing the word was actually cucumber. We have never looked at one the same since.

I'll leave you with my favorite one: You've got another think coming. You've got another thing is too combative. I love being told to re-think things and maybe I have given you some things to reconsider.