She plummeted
the deaths of inequity
Malapropisms aren't just a case of picking the wrong word or
garbling the right one – they improve on the original. (But they have to be spontinuous and not manufactuated.) Mrs Malaprop was
a character in Sheridan's The Rivals who was always referring to allegories when she meant alligators, or epitaphs when she meant epithets.
And it’s all laid out by Calamity Brown! John Major in the Queen’s garden.
celerity culture (imdb) (Fame is over so fast.)
cleaverage (cleavage and leverage)
compliable (compliant and pliable)
defiantly not! for definitely not
derisible (derisory and risible) Autocar March 10
dramaterisation (dramatisation and characterisation) Amazon review
cleaverage (cleavage and leverage)
It's morphining into something hideous.
maisonestte (maisonette and nest)
Miss Marple’s mind "has plummeted the deaths
of human inequity”. (imdb)
my insights
were revelationary
She was shaking like a leaflet. Strictly Come Dancing
Stonehence
The scene where the body of a dead Londoner who died of phenomena [pneumonia] ... submerging [emerging] from a submarine on a beach in Spain. ... (IMDB review of The Man Who Never Was)
We’ll just bulstrode forward. Nigel Leck on the Million Pound Property Experiment – I think he meant bulldoze.
When Mrs Friggins fainted in Penzance the “paramagics” came and looked after her.
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