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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago

"He was like a dildo in a lightbulb store: wasn't the brightest, but never failed to please his teacher."

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

I prefer, due to my white trash rural roots:

"That dog won't hunt."

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I don't have a don't in this don't.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

This is the true evolution

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 month ago

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

I don't have one horse size duck or 100 duck sized horses in this race.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

"I don't have a horse in this dog": incoherent, fanciful, drunk

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

I don't have a fight in this race

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

"I dont have a horse in this fight" makes sense if context is Calvary charge. I dk im drunk.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

And a dog in this race for greyhound racing

[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 month ago (3 children)

My two favorite malaphors:

  • It's not rocket surgery.
  • We will burn that bridge when we get to it.
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

I use those both regularly. And people seem totally unable to tell whether I am doing it on purpose.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Malaphor, my new favorite word Also: "she looks like she's been through the run of the mill"

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

"He looks like he fell out of the Ugly Tree and hit every branch on the way down."

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That’s all water under the fridge at this point.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Not sure what's the idiom with "fridge" in it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

There isn’t one, it’s a malaphor imposter!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Wow, that does provoke strong imagery. That's a great looking dog in a great looking race. I hope he wins.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

"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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

I don't have a race-fight in this hot-dog

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago
[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

Not my circus, not my monkeys.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (2 children)

There's a YouTuber named Memoria Matters who has an inside joke that she's trying to popularize the idiom "too many dogs on the dance floor". I'm pretty sure it doesn't have any particular meaning, however. It came up quite a few times during her Alien: Isolation let's play, however.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Dammit, that's too fantastic to NOT be an idiom

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Sounds like the name of the next hit single from Reel Big Fish

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

did someone say synthesis?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

The older "Dog in the hunt" is a bit less grim.

Unless you're a fox...

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago

"I'm not the sharpest crayon in the basket. "

"Does the pope shit in the woods?"

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

"I don't have any skin in this game"

Who's betting pieces of skin?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

"I don't have a child with this horse."

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I'm not a native English speaker, but in my experience "I don't have a horse in this race" seems more common.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I'm a native, and I'd agree. But it's a funny post so, I'll ignore that.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

IMO, "dog in this fight" is more common where Ive lived: Appalachia, mid-Atlantic, Midwest. I wouldn't be surprised if it also varies by region, class, etc.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 month ago (2 children)

"Shit or get out of the kitchen" is my current favorite malaphor.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)
[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I use "We'll burn that bridge when we come to it" pretty frequently myself

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

"not the sharpest knife in the cookie jar"

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Sure. It ain't rocket surgery.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

i have no beef in this stew

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

“I don’t have a sea slug in this drive by.” Conjures images of underwater sea violence and muddies your message.

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