10 Expressions you are probably getting wrong.

[RubyK]

10 Expressions

 

[JustBonee]

#9 ... I Could Care Less ...
That one makes me laugh .. because every time I hear it, it seems to cause great argument, and is beaten into the ground.

 

[Judycat]

Taken for granite. WTH?

 

[Lewkat]

Same difference.

 

[StarSong]

Happy to say I'm not guilty of any of those.

 

[hollydolly]

there's also...

You’ve got another thing coming- instead of... You’ve got another think coming​

Aks instead of - Ask​

Irregardless instead of - Regardless​

Conversating instead of - Conversing​

 

[StarSong]

After researching it a few months ago, I learned that "conversate" and "conversating" - irritating as they are to my ears - are propers words that've been around for at least 200 years.

Agreed on the others, @hollydolly.

 

[RadishRose]

Taken for granite. WTH?

When we were kids, a friend of mine used to say that. She also thought if a boy had pitch black hair, another could have pitch blonde hair !

 

[Lewkat]

Not for nothing.

 

[RadishRose]

#9 ... I Could Care Less ...
That one makes me laugh .. because every time I hear it, it seems to cause great argument, and is beaten into the ground.

I have on occasion asked the speaker:
"Really, you could care less?"

"Yes!"

"Well then, how MUCH less, could you care?"
(then the dazed look comes over them)

Not for nothing.

Hey, I say that!

phrase [PHRASE cl, it v-link PHR that]
If you say that it was not for nothing that something happened, you are emphasizing that there was a very good reason for it to happen.

https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/not-for-nothing

The defense rests.

 

[Aneeda72]

#9 ... I Could Care Less ...
That one makes me laugh .. because every time I hear it, it seems to cause great argument, and is beaten into the ground.

It should be I could not care less and I usually couldn’t

 

[Lewkat]

I have on occasion asked the speaker:
"Really, you could care less?"

"Yes!"

"Well then, how MUCH less, could you care?"
(then the dazed look comes over them)

Hey, I say that!

phrase [PHRASE cl, it v-link PHR that]
If you say that it was not for nothing that something happened, you are emphasizing that there was a very good reason for it to happen.

https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/not-for-nothing

The defense rests.

Whenever I have heard it used, it is to connote a negative not a positive which I of course know what it is supposed to do. Often used incorrectly.

 

[CinnamonSugar]

#5 Making a "360" degree turn... hellllloooo... basic geometry!

 

[Geezerette]

I was an English major in college so I never misused any of them, sometimes cringe when I hear them.
But it’s so easy to pick up “sayings” or idioms. For example, I was in a FedEx place the other day to ship a return and the polite young male clerk started to explain the process to the nice old lady (me) and I replied “that’s ok, it’s not my first rodeo”!

 

[MarciKS]

#8 kills me.

 

[Murrmurr]

Not worth a grain of salt - that's pretty dang worthless.

 

[J.B Books]

#7 Doggy dog?

It's a dog eat dog world out there.......and I'm wearing milk bone underwear!

 

[Sunny]

"I could care less" is wrong, and obviously means you do care. But it's in such common use that I think it has replaced the correct expression, which would be "I couldn't care less." I can't even remember the last time I heard it said that way.

Makes no sense, but that's how language works.

 

[Capt Lightning]

On a flight, where the flight attendant spoke "American English", my colleague asked if he could have a drink. She replied that we would be "landing momentarily". My colleague responded, "I hope not, I want the plane to stay on the ground".

(I hate the expression "de plane", it's "disembark" !)

 

[RadishRose]

Lately, I've been hearing people say "disinformation". I thought it was "misinformation". Anyone else?