Post #1870220
2017-10-09 13:11 UTC
Word of the Day
malaphor
noun
An inapropriately mixed metaphor which somehow seems to get the point across anyway.
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"It isn't rocket surgery, you know!" said Bob. He was totally unaware that his mixed up metaphor was also a malapropism, a malaphor.
[The Oxford Dictionaries Online blog describes this word while the ODO dictionary itself fails to contain a definition. Oddity upon oddity.] https://mastodon.cloud/media/b8_YlbLBLHz3jqCC2tE
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@KevinMGranger@cybre.space 2017-10-09 13:23
@Algot@mastodon.cloud my favorite is "we'll burn that bridge when we come to it"