Wordplay: Malaphor Contest

Wordplay: Malaphor Contest: The Truro Tattler has launched a global search for examples of a new figure of speech, the malaphor. A malaphor is a cross between a malapr...

Entries from several contributors:

1. "I felt like a horse out of water."
2. "Stop walking around that issue on kid gloves."
3. "It's time to get your ducks in a barrel."
4. "She found the kink in my armor."
5. "In one end and out the other."
6. "That's a fish of a different color."
7. "It's no skin off my feet."
8. "The shoe is on the other table."
9. "Would you please cut to the cheese."
10. "A kink in the ointment."
11. "It feels good to be back on terra cotta."
12. "Fiesta resistance."

Wordplay: Malaphor Contest

Wordplay: Malaphor Contest: The Truro Tattler has launched a global search for examples of a new figure of speech, the malaphor. A malaphor is a cross between a malapr...

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Malaphor Contest

The Truro Tattler has launched a global search for examples of a new figure of speech, the malaphor. A malaphor is a cross between a malaprop and a metaphor. The best ones make sense in a weird way. For example:

1. "I feel like the village albatross." The speaker meant "village idiot" but crossed the saying with "an albatross around my neck."

2. "Never shoot a gift horse in the face," The speaker may have been thinking about "looking" a gift horse in the mouth and "they shoot horses, don't they?"

3. "Chiseled in wool or carved in wool." The speaker meant "granite."

4. "This should wet your appetite." This makes almost as much sense as "whet".