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-squareunmagical@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up11·3 months ago The grass is always greener in the hand. You can lead a horse to water, but you can’t look it in its mouth. We’ll burn that bridge when we come to it. Caught with his pants in the cookie jar.
minus-squareKlear@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·3 months agoThat last one… goddamn, that’s amazing.
That last one… goddamn, that’s amazing.