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Someone at work wrote something like "we have achieved parody with <competitor's product>."

One I made up as a kid: Very-close veins -> Varicose veins

I thought for a while that the word being used was "bellicose," like they were being confrontational by bulging out.

I have a favorite one of these: "You and me, we're really on the same pagelength."

While not exactly the same, malapropisms are interesting too :-)

Taken for granite.

Amber-lamps.

Mind bottling.

All intensive purposes

*edited

It's usually "all intensive purposes", but yeah, this comes up a lot.

Iv'e seen these so much they don't even phase me any more.

I've seen these so much they don't even face me any more.

Mondegreens are similar

amber lamps has got to be the best eggcorn of all time

Nip it in the butt.

pleugh

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