Malaphors

[Dustin, September 14, 2025. Click for a larger view.]

In today’s Dustin, Kevin Fitch confuses his idioms, and Dustin Kudlick offers a gloss on malaphor, which he defines as “a combination of a metaphor and a malapropism.”

And now I have a word for the manglings of idiom and metaphor that I post when I notice them: going back to the well and getting the rug pulled out, the fabric of civilization at a precipice, a supply-chain bottleneck, toeing a mantra, eating humble crow, and cutting loose a hot potato, and the many flubs of Ford.

Here, from ThoughtCo., is a small collection of malaphors.