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We all make mistakes, especially when our fingers tend to type faster than we think, but the people who make more than is really excusable, don’t care to correct them nor learn the proper usage really infuriate me.

1. I had a friend who would say “I really feel like he pigeonheld me.”

2. Another friend says “let me tell you me.” No matter how many times we tell him that he’s mixing two phrases – “let me tell you” and “believe you me” (which is annoying as well) – he refuses to believe it.

3. This one is less wacky, but it annoys me so much: my mother-in-law often says “so I says.” The worst part is that she has trouble formulating her thoughts because she’s not the brightest bulb (yes I’m a snob), so this will often be a part of a longer phrase that goes like this: “Dave did this to me, so I says, I says, ‘Dave, you shouldn’t,’ uh, I says, “you shouldn’t….’” I just want to yell SPIT IT THE F OUT. And it’s SAID. SO I SAID.

“__ struck a cord with me.”

I’m not sure how striking a rope or cable… well, maybe if you were playing a string instrument, and .. but then you would still be striking a CHORD.

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Instead of spitting image we use “cuspido e escarrrado” (roughly translated to spitted and expectorated).

The accepted origin of the term is “esculpido em carrara” (sculpted in carrara, a kind(?) of marble), meaning that someone looked like the sculpted in marble image of someone else.

No idea if both spitting image and “cuspido e escarrado” have the same origin, but I found it similar enough.

“Chalk full of”.