gedaliyah@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 3 months agoIs there a word for mangled idiom that becomes commonplacemessage-squaremessage-square84fedilinkarrow-up1106arrow-down11file-text
arrow-up1105arrow-down1message-squareIs there a word for mangled idiom that becomes commonplacegedaliyah@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 3 months agomessage-square84fedilinkfile-text
Like “does the Pope shit in the woods?” or “that train has sailed?” Also, what good examples can you think of?
minus-squareGingerlegs@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up30·3 months agoMy buddy and I have a whole list of these…I started calling them masonism’s because he messes them up so often lol “I don’t give a shit if he wrote the Mona Lisa!” “I’m not attached to my hip!” “I’m taking my own life…into my own hands!” “How’s that for apples?” “There’s not enough meat to play with” “That’s a hit…and a miss!” “If it weighs anything to you….” “Jesus Christ! That’s slave robbery! “Welp, I’m going to get hard at work” “I’m making shit up out of my ass.” “He was flopping back and forth” (flip flopping) “I’m going to go tell this kid a piece of my mind…” “Oh, here you go….you’re going to piss on my parade!” “Don’t count your chickens before they turn into eggs.” “Well isn’t that the horse calling the kettle black” “Does a fat kid shit in the woods?” “I can sleep through a rock!” Ibanez AZ series guitars? Yea I know them like they’re in the back of my hand…” “There’s a lot of onions to that…” “I’m pulling it off my head” “Knock the balls off! -knock it out of the park/socks off “That’s a double sided sword!” “You can’t lead a horse to fish…”
minus-squareChonkyOwlbear@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up11·3 months ago “Well isn’t that the horse calling the kettle black” I love this.
minus-squareRhynoplaz@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·3 months ago “Welp, I’m going to get hard at work” Umm… Yeah, that TOTALLY never actually happens to me either.
minus-squareKlear@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·3 months agoI can’t get hard at work because there’s not enough meat to play with =/
minus-squareRhynoplaz@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·3 months agoThere’s not enough meat to play with because I can’t get hard at work! Ahh! It’s a Catch 22!
My buddy and I have a whole list of these…I started calling them masonism’s because he messes them up so often lol
“I don’t give a shit if he wrote the Mona Lisa!”
“I’m not attached to my hip!”
“I’m taking my own life…into my own hands!”
“How’s that for apples?”
“There’s not enough meat to play with”
“That’s a hit…and a miss!”
“If it weighs anything to you….”
“Jesus Christ! That’s slave robbery!
“Welp, I’m going to get hard at work”
“I’m making shit up out of my ass.”
“He was flopping back and forth” (flip flopping)
“I’m going to go tell this kid a piece of my mind…”
“Oh, here you go….you’re going to piss on my parade!”
“Don’t count your chickens before they turn into eggs.”
“Well isn’t that the horse calling the kettle black”
“Does a fat kid shit in the woods?”
“I can sleep through a rock!”
Ibanez AZ series guitars? Yea I know them like they’re in the back of my hand…”
“There’s a lot of onions to that…”
“I’m pulling it off my head”
“Knock the balls off!
-knock it out of the park/socks off
“That’s a double sided sword!”
“You can’t lead a horse to fish…”
I love this.
Im stealing these.
Umm… Yeah, that TOTALLY never actually happens to me either.
I can’t get hard at work because there’s not enough meat to play with =/
There’s not enough meat to play with because I can’t get hard at work!
Ahh! It’s a Catch 22!