gedaliyah@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 3 months agoIs there a word for mangled idiom that becomes commonplacemessage-squaremessage-square95fedilinkarrow-up1129arrow-down11file-text
arrow-up1128arrow-down1message-squareIs there a word for mangled idiom that becomes commonplacegedaliyah@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 3 months agomessage-square95fedilinkfile-text
Like “does the Pope shit in the woods?” or “that train has sailed?” Also, what good examples can you think of?
minus-squareRhynoplaz@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up9·3 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-up4·3 months agoI can’t get hard at work because there’s not enough meat to play with =/
minus-squareRhynoplaz@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up6·3 months agoThere’s not enough meat to play with because I can’t get hard at work! Ahh! It’s a Catch 22!
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!