Jul
14
2010
Misused Figures of Speech
Posted by: JesterHow to Misuse Figures of Speech
- Company manager mulling over his next strategic move: “Argh! This is a no-win-win situation!”
- Man to his new wife: “Don’t worry honey, we’ll just burn the bridge when we get there.”
- Lawyer to the jury: “Ladies and gentlemen, this contract is annulled and void.”
- The same lawyer, on a different case: “Your honor, this exercise is mute and academic…”
- Man to his friend, “Don’t worry too much about it, if worse comes to shove, just leave it!”
- Girl to boyfriend: “Oh? Are you joking my leg?”
- Exclamation: “Oh my God! It’s a blessing in the sky.”
- Randy: “Dawg, you’re barking at the wrong dog.”
- Simon: “You want to have your cake and bake it too… well it ain’t happenin’.”
- “Now and there…”
- “I’m only human nature…sob!”
- “The sky’s the langit.” (For non Filipinos, “langit” means… well… “sky”.)
- When the boss asked how a project is progressing, an employee answers: “Sir, so far, so good…so far.” The boss responded, “Well, hurry up! Time is of the elements.”
- Describing a shooting star: “Then it was gone in the wink of an eye!”
- “The feeling is actual.”
- “For all intense and purposes.”
- Explaining: “It’s a base-to-base casis…”
- “Can’t you just cut me some slacks?!”
