@gedaliyah@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world • 2 months agoIs there a word for mangled idiom that becomes commonplacemessage-square95fedilinkarrow-up1130arrow-down11file-text
arrow-up1129arrow-down1message-squareIs there a word for mangled idiom that becomes commonplace@gedaliyah@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world • 2 months agomessage-square95fedilinkfile-text
Like “does the Pope shit in the woods?” or “that train has sailed?” Also, what good examples can you think of?
minus-square@cabron_offsets@lemmy.worldlinkfedilink12•2 months agoOne of my standbys is “that horse has sailed”.
One of my standbys is “that horse has sailed”.