gedaliyah@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 9 hours agoIs there a word for mangled idiom that becomes commonplacemessage-squaremessage-square68fedilinkarrow-up173arrow-down11file-text
arrow-up172arrow-down1message-squareIs there a word for mangled idiom that becomes commonplacegedaliyah@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 9 hours agomessage-square68fedilinkfile-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-up4·7 hours ago “Welp, I’m going to get hard at work” Umm… Yeah, that TOTALLY never actually happens to me either.
Umm… Yeah, that TOTALLY never actually happens to me either.