Brewer's: Malaprop

(Mrs.), in The Rivals, by Sheridan. (French, mal à propos.) Noted for her blunders in the use of words. “As headstrong as an allegory on the banks of the Nile” is one of her famous similes. (See Partington.)

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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