Goldwynisms<\/b><\/p>\n
Sam Goldwyn, the movie producer, used to mangle the English language so badly that his malaprops and mixed metaphors came to be known as Goldwynisms. Some that have become classics are…<\/p>\n
\u2022 A verbal contract isn\u2019t worth the paper it\u2019s printed on.<\/p>\n
\u2022 Every Tom, Dick, and Harry is named William.<\/p>\n
\u2022 Now, gentlemen, listen slowly.<\/p>\n
\u2022 For your information, I would like to ask a question.<\/p>\n
\u2022 Include me out.<\/p>\n
\u2022 Don\u2019t talk to me while I\u2019m interrupting.<\/p>\n
\u2022 I may not always be right, but I\u2019m never wrong.<\/p>\n
Bits and Pieces, December, 1989, pp. 12-13<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Goldwynisms Sam Goldwyn, the movie producer, used to mangle the English language so badly that his malaprops and mixed metaphors came to be known as Goldwynisms. Some that have become classics are… \u2022 A verbal contract isn\u2019t worth the paper it\u2019s printed on. \u2022 Every Tom, Dick, and Harry is named William. \u2022 Now, gentlemen, … Continue reading “Nonsense”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/967\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}