Improve your use of idioms.

[Thorthoth]

1. First-come, first-served, NOT First-come, first-serve.

2. Sneak peek, NOT Sneak peak

3. deep-seated, NOT Deep-seeded

4. Exact revenge, NOT Extract revenge

5. I couldn't care less, NOT I could care less

6. shoo-in, NOT Shoe-in.

7. Sleight of hand, NOT Slight of hand.

8. Homed in, NOT Honed in.

9. Bated breath, NOT Baited breath.

10. Peace of mind, NOT Piece of mind.

11. Whet your appetite, NOT Wet your appetite.

12. For all intents and purposes, NOT For all intensive purposes.

13. One and the same, NOT One in the same.

14. Make do, NOT Make due.

15. By and large, NOT By in large.

16. Due diligence, NOT Do diligence.

17. Piqued my interest, NOT Peaked my interest.

18. Case in point, NOT Case and point.

[DoomYoshi]

Number 5 is debatable. I've stapled people's ears together for disagreeing with me on that one.

I could care less. It is conceivable. Apathy has no floor.

[Thorthoth]

Number 5 is debatable. I've stapled people's ears together for disagreeing with me on that one.

I could care less. It is conceivable. Apathy has no floor.

Not impressed by your veiled ear-stapling threat. I couldn't care less.

[2dimes]

Number 5 is debatable. I've stapled people's ears together for disagreeing with me on that one.

I could care less. It is conceivable. Apathy has no floor.

Not impressed by your veiled ear-stapling threat. I couldn't care less.

I could care a lot less about that threat since I find it interesting.

Typically people are intending to communicate they could not care less when they use that though.

[2dimes]

The only one I was miss using was 4 I wonder about 17 since my interest could have peaked.

I'm pretty sure you couldn't have peeked it though.

[jimboston]

I could care less. It is conceivable. Apathy has no floor.

meh

[waauw]

3. deep-seated, NOT Deep-seeded

Nice one Freud.

[jonesthecurl]

Phrase which puts up the hairs on the back of my neck is "As much if not more than...", or similar. It should be "As much AS if not more than..."

[TA1LGUNN3R]

Re: 10

[mrswdk]

宁缺毋滥 (ning que wu lan)
It’s better to go without than settle for a substandard option.

[KoolBak]

Toe the Line is one I've argued about a lot. See Tow the Line written a lot or its how people think it....pisses me off Like saying "It's a MUTE point" or "Supposeably" ....aaaarrrggggg....

Much like song lyrics, but we've done that thread....

[2dimes]

Moot point not mute point.

[TA1LGUNN3R]

Worst case Ontario, this'll make soresloth happy:

[DoomYoshi]

I work with a moron who once thought that there was a type of cheese called Old Forte Cheddar (all labels in Canada are bilingual).

Anyway, this person is convinced that "From Fair to Midland" is an acceptable idiom as opposed to "From Fair to Middling". The reason is because "that's what my father used to say". Unfortunately, the father probably understood what the joke was, and the next generation is lost in space.