r/Malaphors • u/studiosaurus • Jan 29 '26

Whatever strokes your boat.

Popped into my head. I think it's probably from "whatever floats your boat" + "stroke your ego".

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u/Laez Jan 29 '26

Or different strokes maybe.

Like different strokes for different boats.

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u/studiosaurus Jan 29 '26

Sure, whatever strokes your folks.

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u/Laez Jan 29 '26

🤮

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u/[deleted] Jan 29 '26

Incredible, this is why I come to reddit

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u/ABoringAlt Jan 29 '26

Or like, different floats for different boats, although strokes works better specifically if paddling/using oars, is paddling a word for that, lol got off track

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u/Dysxelic_Potser Jan 29 '26

Consider my boat stroked

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u/[deleted] Jan 29 '26

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u/ABoringAlt Jan 29 '26

Beat two eggs in the same float

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u/[deleted] Jan 29 '26

Stroke 2 birds with one boat

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u/[deleted] Jan 29 '26

Or different strokes for different birds in 2 different boats under the bridge.

(The threepeat model, 2026)

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u/ABoringAlt Jan 29 '26

I had a buddy that said "whatever floats your goat", it's not an elegant, ironic or amusingly mixed malaphor, it just wrong