Re: Mixing phrases
Posted by ESC on January 14, 2000
In Reply to: Mixing two phrases together?
posted by Stef 11 on January 14, 2000
: Let sleeping giants lie. : Up a gum tree without a paddle. : What is the name for these mixed up phrases? You've buttered your bread, now sleep in it. I'll burn that bridge
when I come to it. Malapropisms means mixing up up similar words.
But I don't think that's what you're going for.
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