The true idiom is to "fall by the wayside" which means they fail to finish an activity or stop doing it, making it, or using it.
I guess this is one of those idioms that has truly fallen by the wayside!
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Friday, November 23, 2012
Falling By The Waist Side vs. Falling By the Wayside
The true idiom is to "fall by the wayside" which means they fail to finish an activity or stop doing it, making it, or using it.
I guess this is one of those idioms that has truly fallen by the wayside!
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I received a letter from a business executive today who stated in an email, "I just wanted you to know that it has not fallen to the waist side." Uggh.
ReplyDeleteGood definintion: To fall by the wayside is to be abandoned or forgotten over time. The image is of something dropping, unnoticed, from a traveler's kit and being left behind by the side of the road as the traveler moves on. This comes from a biblical allusion in Matthew 13:4 because Jesus talks about a sower losing valuable seeds as they fell to the wayside.
Thank you for your comments. This ignorantic is used too many times!
ReplyDeletei actually thought it was "waste side" before looking it up. which made sense to me, i imagined something falling into a street gutter with the other "waste" by the "side" of the road. good to know the correct phrase and origin now though.
ReplyDeleteIt is a term commonly used incorrectly. Thanks again for your comments.
ReplyDeleteI had never even heard it said incorrectly until just now by one of my co-workers and I googled it (which is why I am here) to see if i had been saying it wrong all my life. LOL
ReplyDeleteMee too Aspen.
DeleteThank goodness for this website. I know that the saying is often spoken incorrectly so I check before using so I do not look life an ignoramus.
ReplyDeleteThank you, J. Fitzgerald for sharing your knowledge with us!
Just because someone uses a wrong phrase doesn't make them ignorant. Some can have multiple uses or meanings. Ignorant is a pretty strong word.
ReplyDeleteI love this. Great work! "Your" the best, but you already "new" that.
ReplyDeleteIn a blog by "Crystal" proofread by an online company which "corrects" grammar in blogs as a service, hilariously allowed "waist side" instead of way side". I tried to write the author of the blog & also the Grammerly company which can be hired to mislead people, but neither site allowed any comment. I guess this is a lesson not to hire the Grammerly folks who should have learned English before selling their "skills" which have obviously gone through the "waist side"...
ReplyDeleteThank you for trying to stay on the right side of grammar. We allow comments here.
DeleteThank you! I hate English and I usually get things either backwards, incorrect, misspelled, or a combination of all three. Thank God for technology.
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