MALAPROPISMS
Pheasant pluckers.
Profiteroles
nothing to do with Royce - but chocolate filled schoux pasteries.
Psychopath,
mental condition.
Cycle path,
bicycle way.
The psychopath rode by on the cycle path.
NAMES
Penny Black (philatelist)
Penny Dreadful (sensational cheap novelist)
Penny Tents (remorseful, she shouldn't have!)
Penny Tentiary (prison warden)
Phyllis Tine - not appreciative of the finer things.
ODDS
Coins/transport,
penny farthing.
We pull buildings down, but have you ever seen one actually pulled down?
Taken down, yes; knocked down, yes, but pulled down?
Pan ash,
burnt remains.
Panache,
joie de vivre, elan.
Paramour,
lover.
Paramount,
conjoining with the above.
Patio, prn patyo.
Not payshio.
Ratio, prn raishio.
Not ratio.
A piece of pipe is not the same as a pipe of peace.
Does the public records office sell CDs and DVDs?
Paraphernalia,
distillation process for inflammable liquid used in oil lamps & stoves.
Aladin - Pink Parafin
Panda = Eats shoots and leaves
Panda = Eats, shoots and leaves
Pie/Pi
Is a Greek pie, a pastry covered dish of mousaka
or a mathematical formula calculated @ 3.142 &
used to calculate the dimentions of a circle?
He's a personal friend.
Ever had an impersonal friend?
Who is Posterity that so much is saved for.
General public, on whose behalf the government ought to work.
Pasteurize - sterilization, often of milk.
Pastor Eise - German shepherd.
Playin' Cards - Plain Cards.
Pearl barley, grain.
Post operative,
a letter carrier.
Doctors and Solicitors, not to mention Architects etc. ‘practice’
their professions rather than ‘perfecting’ them.
Protein,
in favour of young people.
Car park,
vehicle resting place.
Par cark,
foreign confusion about pronunciation.
Pat riots, Irish uprisings.
Patriots, nationalistic.
Are you in, Ernest? Are you in earnest?
Proper gander,
a real masculine goose.
Proper gander,
(sl) a good look.
A "plastic" surgeon.
A "paper" shop.
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