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"It is beyond my apprehension."
Danny Ozark, baseball team manager
"Listen to the blabbing brook."
Norm Crosby
"This is unparalyzed in the state's history."
Gib Lewis, Texas Speaker of the House
"She's really tough; she's remorseful."
David Moorcroft
"And then he [Mike Tyson] will have only channel vision."
Frank Bruno, boxer
"Cardial - as in cardial arrest."
Eve Pollard
"Marie Scott... has really plummeted to the top."
Alan Weeks
"He's going up and down like a metronome."
Ron Pickering
"He's on 90... 10 away from that mythical figure."
Trevor Bailey, cricket commentator
"Unless somebody can pull a miracle out of the fire, Somerset are cruising into the semi-final."
Fred Trueman
"We cannot let terrorists and rogue nations hold this nation hostile or hold our allies hostile."
George W. Bush
"The police are not here to create disorder, they're here to preserve disorder."
Richard Daley, former Chicago mayor
"He was a man of great statue."
Thomas Menino, Boston mayor
"Republicans understand the importance of bondage between a mother and child."
Dan Quayle, Vice President
"Well, that was a cliff-dweller."
Wes Westrum, about a close baseball game
"If Gower had stopped that [cricket ball] he would have decapitated his hand."
Farokh Engineer
"We seem to have unleased a hornet's nest."
Valerie Singleton
"This series has been swings and pendulums all the way through."
Trevor Bailey, cricket commentator
"Be sure and put some of those neutrons on it."
Mike Smith, ordering a salad at a restaurant
"It's got lots of installation."
Mike Smith, describing his new coat
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-- Persian Proverb
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September 25th, 2008, 04:52 PM
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Mrs. Malaprop (her name means "inappropriate") was a character
in Richard Sheridan's 1775 play, The Rascals.
She has lent her name to the variety of verbal miscues
that she came out with . . . such as:
"Forget this fellow ... to illiterate him, I say, from your memory."
[obliterate]
"Oh, it gives me the hydrostatics to such a degree."
[hysterics]
"I hope you will represent her to the captain
as an object not altogether illegible."
[eligible]
"She might reprehend the true meaning of what she is saying."
[comprehend]
"I am sorry, Sir Anthony, that my affluence
over my niece is very small."
[influence]
"Why, murder's the matter!
Slaughter's the matter! Killing's the matter!
But he can tell you the perpendiculars."
[particulars]
"His physiognomy is so grammatical!"
[phraseology]
"I am sure I have done everything in my power
since I exploded the affair."
[exposed]
"If ever you betray what you are entrusted with,
you forfeit my malevolence forever."
[benevolence]
"She's as headstrong as an allegory on the banks of the Nile."
[alligator]
"Sure, if I reprehend anything in this world,
is the use of my oracular tongue,
and a nice derangement of epitaphs."
[apprehend, vernacular, arrangement, epithets]
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