House of Malaprop: Waddle & Mob

[cimorene]

1. Eddie waddles his napkin and chucks it at Henderson's head.


2. the mob of black hair on his chest


3. in the thralls of passion


4. fingers adjourned with rings of silver.


5. She didn’t even complain, just shrugged and trounced back to her friends waiting at the entrance.


6. wrecking his mind for what it was he needed to do.

Comments

[princessofgeeks]

You know, all but 5 have kind of a glorious alternate possibility about them.

[cimorene]

I see it for some of them, but I can't get it for 2 and 4.

[princessofgeeks]

Well, mob is a big collection of something. Mop is a large collection of thick woven threads. The connotations make it interesting, I thought.

And if you think of the person with the rings in Number 4 as a corpse... well, maybe that is just Halloween taking over my brain....

[cimorene]

Weirdly sort of personifying the hairs...

[hebethen]

I can't for the life of me figure out #2.

[cimorene]

Mop.

[hebethen]

OOOoooh. Hah, not something I'd associate with body hair in the first place! Incredible.