Malaphors

Laura Coates, chief legal analyst for CNN, was talking about the Trump criminal trial, and Judge Merchan’s sustaining an objection to the defense opening statement attacking Cohen credibility. ...

https://malaphors.com/2024/04/24/you-cant-get-ahead-of-the-cart/

This was said in a conversation by someone who did not want to argue. It’s a word blend of “quibble” (a slight objection of a trivial matter) and “squabble” (a noisy quarrel about a tri...

https://malaphors.com/2024/04/22/i-dont-want-to-quabble/

Adam Klasfeld, a journalist for Courthouse News, was on the MSNBC podcast The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell, talking about the upcoming Trump criminal trial and rulings that Judge Merchan m...

https://malaphors.com/2024/04/19/he-threaded-that-line-carefully/

Tyler Kennedy, a retired Pittsburgh Penguin and hockey commentator, was talking about the playoff race on the Pittsburgh sports radio show 93.7 The Fan. At the time the Penguins were ahead of thr...

https://malaphors.com/2024/04/17/chomping-at-our-heels/

Jeff Ostroff, who has a YouTube channel for DIY engineers, was talking about the recent collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge and inadvertently said “Francis Ford Key Bridge”. Here is the ...

https://malaphors.com/2024/04/15/francis-ford-key-bridge/

A husband was going to fix something in the house and his wife said “don’t do it as you’ll make it worse”. The husband replied with this nice mashup of “Doubting Thomas” (a skeptic wh...

https://malaphors.com/2024/04/12/dont-be-such-a-doubting-nellie/

This mashup was uttered by the courtside reporter in McDonald’s All-American Game on ESPN at 9:50 p.m., asking High School Superstar Dylan Harper how his team would keep it going in the second ...

https://malaphors.com/2024/04/10/keep-your-pedal-on-the-gas/

A professor was telling her class that they will be studying a certain subject in more detail next semester so studying it ahead of time might be unnecessary but “at least this way you’ll be ...

https://malaphors.com/2024/04/05/youll-be-ahead-of-the-bandwagon/

A physical therapist was talking about a new hire that another PT wanted to also hire. The new hire was apparently great. This is a mashup of “fight tooth and nail” (engage in vigorous combat...

https://malaphors.com/2024/04/03/i-would-have-fought-him-to-the-teeth-for-her/

This one was uttered on Episode 3, Season 46 (!) of the tv show “Survivor”. It is a mashup of “a bag of tricks” (items that one has available for use) and “pull a rabbit out of the hat�...

https://malaphors.com/2024/04/01/they-all-have-their-tricks-in-a-hat/