gedaliyah@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 15 hours agoIs there a word for mangled idiom that becomes commonplacemessage-squaremessage-square74fedilinkarrow-up188arrow-down11file-text
arrow-up187arrow-down1message-squareIs there a word for mangled idiom that becomes commonplacegedaliyah@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 15 hours agomessage-square74fedilinkfile-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-up5·13 hours ago “Welp, I’m going to get hard at work” Umm… Yeah, that TOTALLY never actually happens to me either.
minus-squareKlear@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·58 minutes agoI can’t get hard at work because there’s not enough meat to play with =/
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 =/