#malaphor — Public Fediverse posts

“I live an hour out of town. It’s not like I can come in at the spur of the drop of a hat.”

— new top-tier malaphor overheard in Bismarck, North Dakota

#northdakota #malaprop #metaphor #malaphor #portmanteau

The watched kettle is right twice a day, so long as the pot calls it black, apparently.

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I propose a new mixed idiom: "He's dead Jim, but not dead as we know it"

#mixedIdiom #malaphor #starTrek

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Beat swords into the eye of the beholder.

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beating around the wrong tree

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He's not the sharpest nail in the coffin.

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That's all water under the table

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You can lead a horse out of the bag

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Kill two birds to save nine