10 Common Phrases People Get Wrong All the Time and How to Say Them Correctly
English is not an easy language. Our ph sounds like f, and our idioms often don’t make sense . (The cat in the bag? Who kept the cat in the bag?)
Likewise, there are many common English expressions that people use all the time – and wrong. Whether you consider yourself a master of the word or are not even sure what “to show through” means at all, chances are you mispronounced some of these common phrases and never knew about it.
According to Merriam-Webster , these mistaken combinations of phrases that sound right but are not true are called … egg peas! (Even more surprising, “egg corn” generally entered our vocabulary only after enough people misheard and mispronounced “acorn.”
Here are some phrases you might be wrong and what to say instead.