@[email protected] to Ask [email protected] • 8 months agoIs there a word for mangled idiom that becomes commonplacemessage-square95fedilinkarrow-up1129
arrow-up1129message-squareIs there a word for mangled idiom that becomes commonplace@[email protected] to Ask [email protected] • 8 months agomessage-square95fedilink
Like “does the Pope shit in the woods?” or “that train has sailed?” Also, what good examples can you think of?
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink14•8 months ago The grass is always greener in the hand. You can lead a horse to water, but you can’t look it in its mouth. We’ll burn that bridge when we come to it. Caught with his pants in the cookie jar.
That last one… goddamn, that’s amazing.