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The most common phrases we say wrong every day
Sounding smart. It’s a tricky tightrope to walk.
Do you try and use phrases and words you might not really understand and look like a conversational rockstar when you pull it off, or fail miserably and look like Joey from Friends and his “word of the day” toilet paper?
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It seems most of us end up the latter with a new UK study by Privilege Insurance outing 66 percent of us as accidentally mixing up words and phrases.
While some are pretty easy to do (come on, hunger pains sounds exactly like hunger pangs) there’s some commonly misused phrases we're not so sure about. Nipping something in the butt? That sounds painful…
The most commonly misused phrases:
28% - "Hunger pains" instead of "Hunger pangs"
22% - "Wreck havoc” instead of “Wreak havoc”
20% - “Out on a whim” instead of “Out on a limb”
20% - “Mute point” instead of “Moot point”
18% - "Beckon call” instead of “Beck and call”
18% - “Escape goat” instead of “Scapegoat”
18% - “Nip it in the butt” instead of “Nip it in the bud”
16% - “For all intensive purposes” instead of “For all intents and purposes”
12% - “Extract revenge” instead of “Exact revenge”
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