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Originally Posted by Deskisamess
Yep, same here.
I hear "spitting image" too often to count. I just read that in a book recently too, "She was the spitting image of her father..." It's "spit and image"
And "for all intensive purposes" instead of "intents and purposes"
"Past muster" for "passed muster" I also read that not too long ago. Pulled me right out of the story.
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"Spitting image" has been in the vernacular for so long, that one has become assimilated and common usage. I don't think I can remember the last time I heard spit and image. It's been...50 years? Outside of my family, I mean. Maybe longer.
The others are...phrase-based homonym errors, really. The "for all intensive purposes" drives me insane. Ditto "past muster" and some others. I have to bite my tongue--literally--when I'm around people, to stop myself from auto-correcting. (If they don't ask, I don't tell.)
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