• Reyali@lemm.ee
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      1 month ago

      But that’s just a ‘bone apple tea’ of “chest of drawers”? It’s not a correct term.

      (I figured surely there’s an actual word for misheard terms being butchered in writing, but a quick search failed me so I went with the colloquial name.)

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        1 month ago

        There’s “malapropism” that is sort of close, but even that is more like accidentally combining parts of two idioms.

        It was named after a character in a play that always did it.