As some of you may know, I'm compiling a book of malapropisms for a NY publisher. Some are funny, some just curious. I'll be writing and illustrating it. At present, I'm still in the collecting/drafting stage, but I thought it might be fun to post a malpropism of the day. Since I'll have about 600 of them in the book, it should take me about two years to post them all, from A to Z. If you are inspired to submit to me some malapropisms you've run across, I'll welcome them!
Today's entry:
adieu, without
further
Variant: much adieu. Conflation of adieu
(good-bye) with ado (complicated doings, ceremony) to
mean “without saying anything more.” Recent example:
“Without further adieu . . . the next remix album is
. . . *drum roll* Animal Crossing!” shinshuinbloom.tumblr.com—retrieved
14 Mar 2014.
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