What in tarnation are you talking about?
I'm partial to the term "kibosh" and use it frequently...as in let's put the kibosh on this job,?ÿmeaning to finish or quit.?ÿ I can remember my grandfather using the term.?ÿ
I was an adult before I realized his use of "land a (of) goshen!" as an exclamation of bewilderment was actually biblical in origin.
My Dad would mispronounce the French word ??gauche? like Gou-chee. ??That??s gou-chee?
?YOU KIDS KEEP IT DOWN TO A QUIET ROAR UP THERE.?
My mother would say if some specified action didn??t happen ??there??s going to be warfare.?
Somewhere in the distant past I heard someone intentionally mispronounce "suave and debonair".?ÿ I have followed that practice many times over the decades.?ÿ The preferred pronunciation is "swayve and duh-boner".
Someone will comment that I seem to be unusually dressed up today.?ÿ My response is something like, "Thanks for noticing.?ÿ I have a very important meeting today.?ÿ I must do my best to appear to be swayve and duh-boner."
That reminded me of the former speaker of the United States House of Representatives; John Boehner with a similar form of pronunciation?ÿ
Knocked up.
I was familiar with the term as per the movie of the same name, but was surprised a long while back to learn of the meaning being to waken one by knocking them up.?ÿ Was listening to an audiobook of Sherlock Holmes and Sherlock says something to the effect of being knocked up so late at night.
OMG!?ÿ I did not realize my term would bring out the auto-censor!?ÿ It started with a bon and ended in an er, but requires a long o sound.
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@dougie?ÿ
As I recall, there was a bay sound ahead of the nur sound.
A few years ago, I was surprised to be informed that, just as there is the word "uncouth", there is also the word "couth".
I've been known to tell people who ask what I thought of a certain performance or show that I was neither overwhelmed or underwhelmed, merely whelmed.?ÿ That will put odd looks on their faces as they attempt to understand what I meant.?ÿ Seriously, one should be whelmed prior to moving on to being overwhelmed.?ÿ Right?
You don't hear much about the gruntled employees, either. Just the disgruntled ones.
Correct.
