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23 Oct 2019, 4:27 pm
23 Oct 2019, 4:31 pm
23 Oct 2019, 4:33 pm
Mountain Goat wrote:
I have just been laughing at a funny saying I have heard and I don't know if I have missheard it, but people say it when they are shocked and serious... but it is not serious at all. It is absolutely hillarious! I have heard it many times but only now it has hit me as to how funny it really is!
If (Insert name) was alive right now he would turn in his grave! Now if that person (Who was dead and buried) suddenly be alive, I would say he or she would do a lot more then just turn... They would likely get their cell phone and ring for help or something...
But anyway. The sillyness of the saying. Who invented that as a serious saying? It is not serious at all. It can't be. It is hillarious! Or am I just wierd? (Don't answer that! Haha!).
If (Insert name) was alive right now he would turn in his grave! Now if that person (Who was dead and buried) suddenly be alive, I would say he or she would do a lot more then just turn... They would likely get their cell phone and ring for help or something...
But anyway. The sillyness of the saying. Who invented that as a serious saying? It is not serious at all. It can't be. It is hillarious! Or am I just wierd? (Don't answer that! Haha!).
That's not an actual saying.
But it's a common malapropism. Folks will mash together two different idioms that mean the same thing.
The person means to say "If Lincoln were alive today he would be shocked", or he would puke, or whatever.
OR...
They mean to say "If Lincoln could see what is going on now he would turn in his grave".
But what actually comes out of the person's mouth is "if Lincoln were alive today he would turn in his grave" which is of course laughable. If he were alive he might well puke at reading the newspaper. But he wouldn't be in his grave..because you just said "if he were alive".
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23 Oct 2019, 4:35 pm
23 Oct 2019, 4:37 pm
naturalplastic wrote:
Mountain Goat wrote:
I have just been laughing at a funny saying I have heard and I don't know if I have missheard it, but people say it when they are shocked and serious... but it is not serious at all. It is absolutely hillarious! I have heard it many times but only now it has hit me as to how funny it really is!
If (Insert name) was alive right now he would turn in his grave! Now if that person (Who was dead and buried) suddenly be alive, I would say he or she would do a lot more then just turn... They would likely get their cell phone and ring for help or something...
But anyway. The sillyness of the saying. Who invented that as a serious saying? It is not serious at all. It can't be. It is hillarious! Or am I just wierd? (Don't answer that! Haha!).
If (Insert name) was alive right now he would turn in his grave! Now if that person (Who was dead and buried) suddenly be alive, I would say he or she would do a lot more then just turn... They would likely get their cell phone and ring for help or something...
But anyway. The sillyness of the saying. Who invented that as a serious saying? It is not serious at all. It can't be. It is hillarious! Or am I just wierd? (Don't answer that! Haha!).
That's not an actual saying.
But it's a common malapropism. Folks will mash together two different idioms that mean the same thing.
The person means to say "If Lincoln were alive today he would be shocked", or he would puke, or whatever.
OR...
They mean to say "If Lincoln could see what is going on now he would turn in his grave".
But what actually comes out of the person's mouth is "if Lincoln were alive today he would turn in his grave" which is of course laughable. If he were alive he might well puke at reading the newspaper. But he wouldn't be in his grave..because you just said "if he were alive".
Yes. I think I got it mixed up somewhere. Raleigh has just stated the correct form of the saying (And so have you).
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28 Oct 2019, 11:07 pm
30 Oct 2019, 10:40 am
Mountain Goat wrote:
naturalplastic wrote:
Mountain Goat wrote:
I have just been laughing at a funny saying I have heard and I don't know if I have missheard it, but people say it when they are shocked and serious... but it is not serious at all. It is absolutely hillarious! I have heard it many times but only now it has hit me as to how funny it really is!
If (Insert name) was alive right now he would turn in his grave! Now if that person (Who was dead and buried) suddenly be alive, I would say he or she would do a lot more then just turn... They would likely get their cell phone and ring for help or something...
But anyway. The sillyness of the saying. Who invented that as a serious saying? It is not serious at all. It can't be. It is hillarious! Or am I just wierd? (Don't answer that! Haha!).
If (Insert name) was alive right now he would turn in his grave! Now if that person (Who was dead and buried) suddenly be alive, I would say he or she would do a lot more then just turn... They would likely get their cell phone and ring for help or something...
But anyway. The sillyness of the saying. Who invented that as a serious saying? It is not serious at all. It can't be. It is hillarious! Or am I just wierd? (Don't answer that! Haha!).
That's not an actual saying.
But it's a common malapropism. Folks will mash together two different idioms that mean the same thing.
The person means to say "If Lincoln were alive today he would be shocked", or he would puke, or whatever.
OR...
They mean to say "If Lincoln could see what is going on now he would turn in his grave".
But what actually comes out of the person's mouth is "if Lincoln were alive today he would turn in his grave" which is of course laughable. If he were alive he might well puke at reading the newspaper. But he wouldn't be in his grave..because you just said "if he were alive".
Yes. I think I got it mixed up somewhere. Raleigh has just stated the correct form of the saying (And so have you).
Well..my point was that you hear other folks say it that way because THEY have it confused.
