Sayings quoted incorrectly

[MoKelly]

Wouldn't unthaw mean "freeze"?

I vote yes. The opposite of thaw is unthaw.

MoKelly

 

[Jstpssng]

I vote yes. The opposite of thaw is unthaw.

MoKelly

From Merriam-Webster dictionary; (Definition of UNTHAW)

NOTE: Although unthaw as a synonym of thaw is sometimes cited as an illogical error, it has persisted in occasional use for more than four centuries. It occurs in both American and British English.

It falls under the same category as the comment "I could care less", when the intent is that it doesn't mean anything to them.

 

[cqaigy2]

Ok, so maybe it was unthaw.

 

[JethroB]

antidisestablishmentarianism

 

[cqaigy2]

From Merriam-Webster dictionary; (Definition of UNTHAW)



It falls under the same category as the comment "I could care less", when the intent is that it doesn't mean anything to them.

So what circumstances would make you care less?

 

[Jstpssng]

So what circumstances would make you care less?

This thread?

 

[MoKelly]

So what circumstances would make you care less?

If you were walking down the sidewalk and saw a bug and just by accident missed stepping on the bug.

The bug then says “be more careful you jerk”!

Then you go back and squish the bug.

MoKelly

 

[cqaigy2]

This thread?

And yet, here we are.

 

[MoKelly]

From Merriam-Webster dictionary; (Definition of UNTHAW)



It falls under the same category as the comment "I could care less", when the intent is that it doesn't mean anything to them.

English is strange. Care less means something entirely different than careless.

MoKelly

 

[Jstpssng]

And yet, here we are.

If I couldn't care less about it, I would be someplace else.

 

[Frankenkubota]

Not sure this has been mentioned or is in the correct thread, but what is it when people talk of thawing out something like a steak, they say they are going to de-thaw the steak. I can see thaw, or even defrost, but de-thaw? And is it a regional thing?

flammable........inflammable

 

[nbking]

It's not rocket surgery, or brain science.
Biff was the original misquote
Why don't you act like a tree, and get outta here

 

[dodge man]

It’s not rock science.

Look up Yogisims(sp?). The things Yogi Bera said. Like “when you come to the fork in the road, take it”.

 

[the old grind]

Totally get Yogi. btw, things are more the way they are now than they've ever been before.

 

[gsganzer]

I hear this one all the time, "Taking things for granite".

 

[2LaneCruzer]

Reminds me of something I saw written on the wall of a privy Many, many years ago.

"Granite Oklahoma...hardest town this side of Cement".

 

[Big Barn]

“Never take things for granite”

......Fred Flintstone

 

[Xfaxman]

Reminds me of something I saw written on the wall of a privy Many, many years ago.

"Granite Oklahoma...hardest town this side of Cement".

And they are 70 miles apart!

 

[2LaneCruzer]

My Dad was in the aggregate business, and there were rock quarries in both towns. Makes me wonder who wrote the line I quoted...

 

[Jstpssng]

An oft misquoted phrase is "Play it again, Sam." That was never said in the movie Casablanca, although it was the name of another movie 20 years later.