pobody's nerfect
English
Etymology
Humorous malapropism of nobody's perfect, coined in the 1970s.
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Phrase
pobody's nerfect
- (humorous) Spoonerism of nobody's perfect
- 1979, 1979 LaGrange High School Yearbook[1], LaGrange, Georgia, United States: LaGrange High School, page 168:
- They may suggest the wearers’ tastes in companionships, such as I’m With Stupid, or, Pobody's Nerfect. Fashion, like T-shirts, inevitably communicates the mood of a unique era.
- 1982, Scott Pinzon, Splendini!, Zondervan Publishing House, →ISBN, page 55:
- A. J. circled around to sit next to him on the bench. Like Dave, he wore a bathing suita nd a colorful T-shirt, but A. J.’s shirt said, “Pobody’s Nerfect.”
- 1983, Everett Gentry, “5: Intentional Spins”, in All About Stalls & Spins, TAB Books, →ISBN, page 51:
- Oh yes, the throttle is still wide open. You know the rest of this story (Fig. 4‒6). Oh well, pobody’s nerfect. This conclusdes my series of stories about airplanes flying the pilot.
- 2019 October 15, Felix Biederman, Matt Christman, Brendan James, Will Menaker, Virgil Texas, “Libs”, in The Chapo Guide to Revolution: A Manifesto Against Logic, Facts, and Reason, →ISBN, page 71:
- Ah, jeez. Oh boy. Yikes. It seems the human culmination of American liberalism lost to a senile (alleged!) rapist game show host. Welp. Pobody’s nerfect, as the old saying goes.