A Conversation for Attack Of The Mutant Expressions
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BigAl Patron Saint of Left Handers Keeper of the Glowing Pickle and Monobrows Posted Jun 21, 2009
'To fall between two stools'
I used to 'misrender' this as 'two schools' as in 'schools of thought' 
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Malabarista - now with added pony Posted Jun 21, 2009
That one almost makes sense!
Entry: Common Examples Of Misrendered Phrases - A53172119
Author: Malabarista - 244 new blobs hunted down and indexed at A53308361 - U1528154
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McKay The Disorganised Posted Jun 21, 2009
It's a good piece Mal, but you've got to change the title.
What about Idomatic Misconceptions.
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Malabarista - now with added pony Posted Jun 21, 2009
That's almost a good title! 
But they're not all idioms. 
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Malabarista - now with added pony Posted Jun 22, 2009
How about "Attack of the Mutant Expressions"? 
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Not-so-bald-eagle Posted Jun 22, 2009
how about "expressions you thought you knew" (although that might irritate people never caught out) or dare something like "old chestnuts getting roasted" 
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Sho - employed again! Posted Jun 22, 2009
I like attack of the mutant expressions.
Can you make it Attack of the Mutant Ninja Zombie Expressions? 
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Malabarista - now with added pony Posted Jun 22, 2009
No pirates?
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Sho - employed again! Posted Jun 23, 2009
No that will be the follow-up article:
Attack of the Mutant Ninja Zombie Pirate Expressions II - the Beginning.
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Malabarista - now with added pony Posted Jun 23, 2009
Added the fell swoop.
Wondering about tung oil, which I've seen as "tongue oil"...
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Gnomon - time to move on Posted Jun 23, 2009
Never heard of it.
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Icy North Posted Jun 23, 2009
Neither had I (but I just looked it up).
It may be too obscure for this entry, Mala.
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Malabarista - now with added pony Posted Jun 23, 2009
Ok, I'll leave it out, then. It's probably too obscure if the readers don't happen to work with wood a lot.
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Malabarista - now with added pony Posted Jun 25, 2009
Found another likely candidate, though - I just saw "beyond the pail" in the wild
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bobstafford Posted Jun 25, 2009
That is correct as it is do you want an explanation Mal
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Malabarista - now with added pony Posted Jun 25, 2009
No, it's not correct. The correct version is "beyond the pale" - it doesn't mean "my bucket runneth over" 
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Opticalillusion- media mynx life would be boring without hiccups Posted Jun 25, 2009
Looks good to me
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bobstafford Posted Jun 25, 2009
Hi Mal
The pale this refers to is the original wooden city wall or the city limits of Dublin.
Those who lived beyond it were rule of English law, odd and beyond control.
The term beyond the pale beyond the rule of law and reason.
The original spelling(s) were Pale Payle And Pail The derivation is a shortened version of palisade, and it is thought by some that the original was Pali from the latin pal, from palus or stake.
This is 1450 English and standardisation of spelling had not yet happened.
I think it is misunderstood but not necessarily misspelt.
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Malabarista - now with added pony Posted Jun 25, 2009
But spelling has been standardised now, and I found far too many google hits having to do with buckets
"Pail" is no longer defined as anything other than a small bucket.
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Malabarista - now with added pony Posted Jun 25, 2009
(Oh, and there are other pales - in Calais, and most notably in Russia, where the Pale was a Jewish ghetto...)
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A53172119 - Commonly Misheard Phrases
- 61: BigAl Patron Saint of Left Handers Keeper of the Glowing Pickle and Monobrows (Jun 21, 2009)
- 62: Malabarista - now with added pony (Jun 21, 2009)
- 63: McKay The Disorganised (Jun 21, 2009)
- 64: Malabarista - now with added pony (Jun 21, 2009)
- 65: Malabarista - now with added pony (Jun 22, 2009)
- 66: Not-so-bald-eagle (Jun 22, 2009)
- 67: Sho - employed again! (Jun 22, 2009)
- 68: Malabarista - now with added pony (Jun 22, 2009)
- 69: Sho - employed again! (Jun 23, 2009)
- 70: Malabarista - now with added pony (Jun 23, 2009)
- 71: Gnomon - time to move on (Jun 23, 2009)
- 72: Icy North (Jun 23, 2009)
- 73: Malabarista - now with added pony (Jun 23, 2009)
- 74: Malabarista - now with added pony (Jun 25, 2009)
- 75: bobstafford (Jun 25, 2009)
- 76: Malabarista - now with added pony (Jun 25, 2009)
- 77: Opticalillusion- media mynx life would be boring without hiccups (Jun 25, 2009)
- 78: bobstafford (Jun 25, 2009)
- 79: Malabarista - now with added pony (Jun 25, 2009)
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