@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@unmagical@lemmy.mllinkfedilink14•2 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.