“He was like a dildo in a lightbulb store: wasn’t the brightest, but never failed to please his teacher.”
My two favorite malaphors:
- It’s not rocket surgery.
- We will burn that bridge when we get to it.
That’s all water under the fridge at this point.
Not sure what’s the idiom with “fridge” in it.
There isn’t one, it’s a malaphor imposter!
Malaphor, my new favorite word Also: “she looks like she’s been through the run of the mill”
I don’t have a dog in this horse.
I don’t have a race in this fight.
“I don’t fight in other people’s races.”
Implies that my fighting is done strictly at my own behest:-).
“Shit or get out of the kitchen” is my current favorite malaphor.
I use “We’ll burn that bridge when we come to it” pretty frequently myself
“not the sharpest knife in the cookie jar”
“I don’t have a hot dog in this bun” - me to the Costco worker.
"Whatever guy, it’s like $2 and I know you just swallowed the whole damn thing, but here, sure, I’ll give you another one while you hold your bag with 5 pounds of hot pockets and a 3L bottle of Johnny Walker blue. "
-the Costco worker
"I’m not the sharpest crayon in the basket. "
“Does the pope shit in the woods?”
I’m not a native English speaker, but in my experience “I don’t have a horse in this race” seems more common.
I’m a native, and I’d agree. But it’s a funny post so, I’ll ignore that.
I prefer, due to my white trash rural roots:
“That dog won’t hunt.”
I don’t have a don’t in this don’t.
This is the true evolution
“I don’t have a horse in this dog”: incoherent, fanciful, drunk
“I don’t have a sea slug in this drive by.” Conjures images of underwater sea violence and muddies your message.
Not my circus, not my monkeys.
Grim? Tell spanish people: “I don’t have a candle in this burial.”
“I don’t have a race-fight in this horse-dog” : questionable morals; supernatural or sci-fi undertones; a good chance for double-takes, perhaps even the odd triple-take
I don’t have a race-fight in this hot-dog
“I dont have a horse in this fight” makes sense if context is Calvary charge. I dk im drunk.
And a dog in this race for greyhound racing
