I've been combining "potato potahto" with "tomato tomahto" and saying "potato tomato" for a while now. I'm not sure if this qualifies bc it still makes sense, but it's funny and people are so confused when they notice
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Does it have to be “unintentional” because I say “we’ll burn that bridge when we come to it” all the time on purpose. As well as “does the pope shit in the woods?”
Not sure this qualifies, but had a friend in college who once announced, "I feel like a string going right through the roof!" It took us several minutes to decipher that she meant she was high strung.
I heard a great malaphor just yesterday on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme. A spokesperson was pleased to hear that the government was “grasping the nettle by the horns”. 😳
one of my favorites has to be "you've opened this can of worms, now lie in it"
"until the cows freeze over" is also pretty good
not quite a malaphor but bonus: for some reason i thought the phrase was "out of the frying pan and into the toaster" instead of "out of the frying pan and into the fire"
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They are named after Jean Perron, who used to coach the Montréal Canadians Hockey team.
"I'm going to drown you. I'm going to drown you like a sack of dumb puppies." -Freeza
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"until the cows freeze over" is also pretty good
not quite a malaphor but bonus: for some reason i thought the phrase was "out of the frying pan and into the toaster" instead of "out of the frying pan and into the fire"