It's not rocket surgery.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mondegreen
A mondegreen (/ˈmɒndɪˌɡriːn/ ⓘ) is a mishearing or misinterpretation of a phrase in a way that gives it a new meaning.[1] Mondegreens are most often created by a person listening to a poem or a song; the listener, being unable to hear a lyric clearly, substitutes words that sound similar and make some kind of sense.[2][3] The American writer Sylvia Wright coined the term in 1954, recalling a childhood memory of her mother reading the Scottish ballad "The Bonnie Earl o' Moray", and mishearing the words "laid him on the green" as "Lady Mondegreen".
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malapropism
A malapropism (/ˈmæləprɒpɪzəm/; also called a malaprop, acyrologia, or Dogberryism) is the incorrect use of a word in place of a word with a similar sound, either unintentionally or for comedic effect, resulting in a nonsensical, often humorous utterance. An example is the statement attributed to baseball player Yogi Berra, regarding switch hitters, "He hits from both sides of the plate. He's amphibious",[1] with the accidental use of amphibious rather than the intended ambidextrous. Malapropisms often occur as errors in natural speech and are sometimes the subject of media attention, especially when made by politicians or other prominent individuals.
Bone apple tea!
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Good pull. Malapropism has always been one of my favorite words and comedic devices, so this is good info. Bravo!
Now if you'll excuse me, I'm gonna go read an article about the Women's Lubrication movement and eat my hot astronomy on rye.
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A malapropism? Does that apply? 🤔
That's like if you said "mute point" instead of "moot point."
You know, a cow's opinion
Don't throw the baby out with the bathwater else you'll end up with a wet, critically injured baby.
We'll drive off that bridge when we get to it
I usually go with “We’ll burn that bridge when we get to it”
That's my favorite one to use
I can't believe you got such a simple saying wrong. It's not rocket surgery.
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I like "we'll burn that bridge when we come to it"
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"It's not rocket surgery."
This one irks me. Combination of "rocket scientist" and "brain surgery".
It's just people combining "it's not rocket science" and "it's not brain surgery". Just like the pope one.
"Does a bear shit in the woods" and "it's not Pope surgery"?
Yes, that's exactly what I thought I had implied.
Nothing holds a bar to this as being my favorites, but I generally don’t pay much mind to idioms—they’re all water under a duck’s back.
I'm personally a fan of "it's not rocket appliances"
My buddy and I have a whole list of these…I started calling them masonism’s because he messes them up so often lol
“I don’t give a shit if he wrote the Mona Lisa!”
“I’m not attached to my hip!”
“I’m taking my own life…into my own hands!”
“How’s that for apples?”
“There’s not enough meat to play with”
“That’s a hit…and a miss!”
“If it weighs anything to you….”
“Jesus Christ! That’s slave robbery!
“Welp, I’m going to get hard at work”
“I’m making shit up out of my ass.”
“He was flopping back and forth” (flip flopping)
“I’m going to go tell this kid a piece of my mind…”
“Oh, here you go….you’re going to piss on my parade!”
“Don’t count your chickens before they turn into eggs.”
“Well isn’t that the horse calling the kettle black”
“Does a fat kid shit in the woods?”
“I can sleep through a rock!”
Ibanez AZ series guitars? Yea I know them like they’re in the back of my hand…”
“There’s a lot of onions to that…”
“I’m pulling it off my head”
“Knock the balls off!
-knock it out of the park/socks off
“That’s a double sided sword!”
“You can’t lead a horse to fish…”
I say "Same Difference" often and people hate it.
“Well isn’t that the horse calling the kettle black”
I love this.
“Welp, I’m going to get hard at work”
Umm... Yeah, that TOTALLY never actually happens to me either.
I can't get hard at work because there’s not enough meat to play with =/
There's not enough meat to play with because I can't get hard at work!
Ahh! It's a Catch 22!
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It's often called an eggcorn, and here's a really good video that touches on it: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JTslqcXsFd4&pp=ygUMRWdnY29ybiBlcmlr
The weirdest one I used to hear often was "for all intensive purposes," like wtf is an intensive purpose?
- 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.
"Not the brightest cookie in the crayon box" is an amalgamation of 3 different sayings I've been trying to make happen. It won't happen.
I do it in danish, but we have the idiom here too. I'll often make up a new one following the not the x y in the z template. E.g. Not the loudest spoon in the forest.
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One of my standbys is “that horse has sailed”.
The correct term is Rickyism
"The blood of the covenant is thicker than the water of the womb." Meaning contracts, friendships, and keeping promises should take priority over family loyalty.
Now changed to "Blood is thicker than water" and means the exact opposite of the original.
Does a bear shit in the Pope’s hat?
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