English for Today by Ganiu Abisoye Bamgbose (Dr GAB)
FIVE COMMONLY MISUSED IDIOMS
- Practice makes perfection. ✖️
Practice makes perfect. ✔️ - You cannot eat your cake and have it. ✖️
You cannot have your cake and eat it (too). ✔️ - Birds of the same feather fly together. ✖️
Birds of a feather flock together. ✔️ - The devil you know is better than the angel you don’t know. ✖️
Better the devil you know (than the devil you don’t). ✔️ - Make haste while the sun shines. ✖️
Make hay while the sun shines. ✔️
GAB
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Never knew these were wrong