Although that is a misquote from the gangster film Taxi! (1931), rats have come to mean traitors or snitches.
The Sunday Mirror once interviewed you and claimed you said "No one on the planet should be as famous as me", but you've said that was a misquote.
She's a nice-looking woman, but she's not slim – she's more than curvy, OK?" So did the Telegraph actually misquote her? "That was a misquote when I gave the interview to the Telegraph, and it was to be off the record, but this journalist told her husband and he said, it's too funny not to put in, and I said, Sorry, this is out of the context".
That was a misquote in Rolling Stone, y'all.
"I never said I knew who killed him, that was a great misquote," he insisted.
Actually, he says now, that's a slight misquote.
They were interested, they said, only in showing that the quote was a misquote, and not in identifying the culprit.
"The Penguin books are splendid value for sixpence, so splendid that if other publishers had any sense they would combine against them and suppress them". Which poet wrote "A little learning is a dangerous thing", a line that is often misquoted as "A little knowledge is a dangerous thing"?
In an interview with The Washington Post, Mr. Christie said of that quotation, "I'm convinced it was a misquote". Jeb Bush said he would move the United States embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem as a signal to Iran.
