Tuesday, June 13, 2006

Times Online: Malapropism

From Times Online
by Jeanette Winterson

Mrs Winterson used to talk about an interfering madam she disliked as a "proper Cleopatra". On further inquiry I discovered she had "a rod up her asp". When I asked what this meant, Mrs Winterson replied: "She won’t let sleeping snakes lie."


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