Origin of "beelzebub has a devil for a sideboard"?
Posted by Mama Mia on April 24, 2003
The listing in the Mondegreen section of the Phrase Finder does not give a source for the mis-hearing of the line from Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen.
Could it come from the cover version of B.R. done by the Young Ones? They certainly use the line "Beelzebub has a devil for a sideboard" instead of the correct lyric.
Of course, they may just have been repeating a popular mishearing, but I am not enough of a Queen fan to know....
Mama Mia
- Origin of "beelzebub has a devil for a sideboard"? Gary Martin 04/24/03
- Origin of "beelzebub has a devil for a sideboard"? Lewis 04/24/03
- Origin of "beelzebub has a devil for a sideboard"? gordonw 04/27/03
- Origin of "beelzebub has a devil for a sideboard"? gordonw 04/27/03
- Origin of "beelzebub has a devil for a sideboard"? gordonw 04/27/03