FIVE COMMONLY MISREPRESENTED ENGLISH IDIOMS

English for Today by Ganiu Abisoye Bamgbose (Dr GAB)

FIVE COMMONLY MISREPRESENTED ENGLISH IDIOMS

1. More grease to your elbow (nonstandard).
   More power to your elbow (standard).
2. Birds of the same feather fly together (nonstandard).
   Birds of a feather flock together (standard).
3. You cannot eat your cake and have it (nonstandard).
   You cannot have your cake and eat it (standard).
4. He who pays the piper dictates the tune (nonstandard).
   He who pays the piper calls the tune (standard).
5. What’s good for the goose is good for the gander (nonstandard).
   What’s sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander (standard).
   GAB