The Knight Life by Keith Knight for February 22, 2015
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Transcript:
More terribly butchered idioms by my foreign born spouse KN: That film was the best thing since sliced pizza!! Youre backing up the wrong tree pal!! I found this space first!! Suck it up man!! Its time to step up on the plate! (just dont break it) Im sorry son..but i think this dog has brought the farm!! KN: PU!! who cut the mustard? 2C @C (too cute to correct!!)
These are better than “Cute Things My Kids Say” strips! Unfortunately native English-speakers don’t do much better; “tow the line”, and so on. I just finished a history of the Roman Empire, so, serious-ish, and in Chapter One the author used “for all intensive purposes.” Curiously, just a few pages earlier, he did use “for all intents and purposes,” go figure.