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People are sharing the commonly misused phrases that really get their goat and these 23 will totally ruin your day

12.

”The proof is in the pudding’. No! The proof of the pudding is in the eating.’
PM_THE_REAPER

13.

‘Loose instead of lose.’
LordBielsa

14.

‘Myself. E.g. ‘Billy and myself went to the meeting’. I mainly hear it in professional contexts like meetings or sales etc.’
aadvarkbunnycat

15.

”Put on a pedal stool’. Honestly anyone who says this is such a damp squid.’
UncleSnowstorm

16.

‘The amount of people I’ve heard say ‘generally’ when they mean ‘genuinely’ has baffled me lately, and it mostly seems to be people under the age of 30 doing it which makes me wonder if the meaning’s changed but completely bypassed me.’
Negative_Nancy213

17.

‘It’s not t-ooooo-meric. There’s an r in there. It’s tuRmeric. The first syllable rhymes with ‘sir’.’
couragethecurious

18.

‘Double negatives annoy the hell out of me.

I haven’t got none.

So, you have some then.’
GrownupChorister

19.

”One in the same’. The correct phrase is ‘one and the same’, which indicates that two things are identical.’
XAYL9

20.

”He must of done’.’
hippodribble

21.

‘‘Rest bite’ instead of ‘respite’.’
BackgroundAioli8155

22.

‘Hold down the fort. You hold the fort, you do not hold it down, it’s not trying to run away.’
Euin

23.

‘Not appreciating the difference between faze and phase. Your grandmother was unfazed by your goth phase.’
mordhoshogh

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