Harping back instead of harking back: "The 22-year-old harped back to the Eighties in her Balenciaga dress by Nicolas Ghesquiere, complete with a strapless snakeskin bodice and colour-block panels on the skirt."
During his confirmation hearing before the U.S. Senate, a nominee was asked about a statement he had made some time before. He answered that he had been misunderstood, because the statement was an attempt at "self-depreciating" humor.
Here's a beauty, straight out of the news: Vancouver, British Columbia, school board is eliminating honors classes in the name of equity. Here's what the school board had to say about it: Emphasis added Here are some definitions of "fulsomely": https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/fulsomely https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fulsome If you hadn't guessed, the article also points out that "Honours math and science will be cut, and honours English has already been discontinued." Quod erat demonstrandum.
'One fail swoop' instead of 'one fell swoop': https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9726703/Father-Matt-Hancocks-married-aide-defends-insisting-daughter-wonderful-woman.html Lodtmann, Bromsgrove, United Kingdom, about a minute ago Yes you must be, breaking up two families,in one fail swoop
I've often preferred to write it (in jest, honest!) as "one swell foop." Most people don't get it ...
"That does not equal to—" Should be "That does not equate with—" Also I've been hearing a lot of abuse of 'to which'. For instance "The firearm to which he armed himself with." Should be "The firearm with which he armed himself."
I was freelancing for a magazine once and they were seeking an editor. The publisher asked me "Do you want to throw your ring in the hat?"
I don't think that's quite right. I think it should just be "that does not equal...". Though "equivalent to" would work.
In a discussion of slang and jargon on another site, someone posted the following: I admit that I sometimes find slang and jargon to be distracting myself, but when that happens I think I'm the distractee, not the distractor.
I used to have a boss who used to say " a hard man is good to find" we initially thought she was doing this... it was nearly a year before we twigged that she really thought that was the right way round
I once dated a woman who wore a tee shirt with that printed across the front on an afternoon boating expedition. Interesting person ... not (IMHO) long-term relationship potential.
I'm quite fond of verse-visa. My geometry teacher used to say this, and I though it was quite clever.
