FIVE COMMONLY MISUSED IDIOMS

English for Today by Ganiu Abisoye Bamgbose (Dr GAB)

FIVE COMMONLY MISUSED IDIOMS

1. Practice makes perfection. ✖️
   Practice makes perfect. ✔️
2. You cannot eat your cake and have it. ✖️
   You cannot have your cake and eat it (too). ✔️
3. Birds of the same feather fly together. ✖️
   Birds of a feather flock together. ✔️
4. The devil you know is better than the angel you don’t know. ✖️
   Better the devil you know (than the devil you don’t). ✔️
5. Make haste while the sun shines. ✖️
   Make hay while the sun shines. ✔️
   GAB