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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