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  • Reyali@lemm.eeEnglish
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    11 days 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.)

    • badgermurphy@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      11 days 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.