I forgot the expression "not cricket", so I said, "not tennis" instead.
A childhood belief about speaking
others believed things like this
- I thought the expression "so funny I forgot to laugh" was literal instead of sarcastic— Not so funny after all
- I used to believe that Jiminy Cricket was a grasshopper because I had never seen a green cricket.Anon
- I used to believe that cricket ice cream used to be made out of real crickets!!!— Lt. Fuzz
- I used to think that the expression "The former or the latter?" was actually "The farmer or the ladder?" — Fitzwilliam
- My friend told me she had invented the expression 'Gordon Bennett' and I believed her!— SueE
- When I was little I used to think that Phoenix palm trees were pineapples that some one forgot to pickAnon