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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsWhat's your favorite malaphor?
Everyone knows what a metaphor is, but I prefer malaphors.
A malaphor is a mixture of two common idioms, or cliches leading to the creation of a something new in metaphor form.
Probably the best known is it's not Rocket Surgery. A combination of it's not rocket science and it's not brain surgery.
My personal favorites" We'll burn that bridge when we get to it" and " The road to hell is the spice of life".
What's your favorite malaphor?
bench
pkdu
(3,977 posts)democratisphere
(17,235 posts)longship
(40,416 posts)Xipe Totec
(43,890 posts)3catwoman3
(24,053 posts)...a mala-four. Well done!!!!
Xipe Totec
(43,890 posts)Kimchijeon
(1,606 posts)Nac Mac Feegle
(971 posts)lpbk2713
(42,766 posts)What else need be said?
Doreen
(11,686 posts)absolute power corrupts absolutely.
This is exactly what is happening.
brush
(53,876 posts)Doreen
(11,686 posts)Ron Obvious
(6,261 posts)Does the pope shit in the woods?
We were just two sheep that passed in the night.
eppur_se_muova
(36,299 posts)Gilding the lily is already a malaphor.
To guard a title that was rich before,
To gild refined gold, to paint the lily,
To throw a perfume on the violet,
To smooth the ice, or add another hue
Unto the rainbow, or with taper-light
To seek the beauteous eye of heaven to garnish,
Is wasteful and ridiculous excess.
Salisbury, in The Life and Death of King John, Act 4, Scene 2, by you-know-who
Ron Obvious
(6,261 posts)It's always important to have your facts in order when engaging in sneering pedantry, so I'll be sure to remember this.
mahatmakanejeeves
(57,621 posts)MrPurple
(985 posts)discntnt_irny_srcsm
(18,482 posts)eppur_se_muova
(36,299 posts)(Well, you didn't say Catholic ...)
ˈkaTH(ə lik/
adjective: catholic
including a wide variety of things; all-embracing.
"her tastes are pretty catholic"
synonyms: universal, diverse, diversified, wide, broad, broad-based, eclectic, liberal, latitudinarian; More
comprehensive, all-encompassing, all-embracing, all-inclusive
"her musical tastes are quite catholic"
antonyms: narrow
Origin
late Middle English: from Catholic.
unblock
(52,331 posts)earthshine
(1,642 posts)"Fool me once ... shame on ... shame on you,
fool me twice, er, ummm, ... won't get fooled again!"
was one of the funniest things I have ever heard.
uriel1972
(4,261 posts)between mother and child. Another Dubya doozy.
uriel1972
(4,261 posts)Ron Obvious
(6,261 posts)Ha, isn't it amazing that, considering present circumstances, Dan Quayle seems like a perfectly reasonable candidate for the office now?
sprinkleeninow
(20,264 posts)discntnt_irny_srcsm
(18,482 posts)A penny saved is worth two in the bush, isn't it?
And don't cross the road if you can't get out of the kitchen.
Why don't you make like a tree, and get the f*@k outta here?
COLGATE4
(14,732 posts)fNord
(1,756 posts)Calling the pipe green."
Also: "this'll be like getting two birds stoned at once."
Iggo
(47,571 posts)I miss me some Ricky.
fNord
(1,756 posts)One of those words wasn't real.
TexasBushwhacker
(20,219 posts)bench scientist
(1,107 posts)TlalocW
(15,392 posts)But you can't make it make a silk purse out of a pig in a poke and stay happy as a clam.
TlalocW
truebluegreen
(9,033 posts)Iggo
(47,571 posts)That guy's fifty if he's an inch.
-- or --
That kid's six feet if he's a day.
(Cracks himself up, he does.)
NJCher
(35,746 posts)collecting them when I hear them.
Being an English teacher, I rarely mess up a cliche, mostly because we're trained not to use them. I do, however, switch up names of stores. When I talk to my brother, who is an engineer and thus very precise, he corrects me. For example, he patiently explains that it illogical for me to to say Shop 'n Stop. "They would not want you to stop shopping, you understand," he says. "That is why it's Stop 'n Shop."
Cher
uriel1972
(4,261 posts)It's very unique after all.
sprinkleeninow
(20,264 posts)his mom called Food Lion, 'Food Tiger'. Now we still call it that to this day!
Ya gotta interject silliness ta keep it reallll...
sprinkleeninow
(20,264 posts)(Maybe this is a malaprop and not what the OP asked for?)
Well, anyway 😝
WinkyDink
(51,311 posts)Phentex
(16,334 posts)that's mostly where I hear these. People try to sound witty, but then mix up the phrases.
Zorro
(15,749 posts)I use it all the time.
OriginalGeek
(12,132 posts)is a horse of a different flavor!
Dave Starsky
(5,914 posts)WinkyDink
(51,311 posts)sprinkleeninow
(20,264 posts)Is moreso a proper word? The grammaticals will reprimand me. And yas, that was the other 'selected' pResident in the Peoples' Whitehouse, the champion of brush clearing, bush*
🆖
Anyway, 🍻
(A tad foggy tonite. Just took note of your user name. I had a Winky Dink set, did you? Hahah.)
WinkyDink
(51,311 posts)sprinkleeninow
(20,264 posts)or should I drop this like a hot potatoe❓
sprinkleeninow
(20,264 posts)sprinkleeninow
(20,264 posts)Don't cry over spilled chickens.
Don't count your milk before it's hatched.
Ima
WinkyDink
(51,311 posts)world wide wally
(21,755 posts)ashling
(25,771 posts)called a mixed metaphor. As a college instructor i would advise against mixing your metaphors