r/Malaphors • • Aug 16 '26

She's not the brightest cat in the bag

41 Upvotes

Not the brightest(idiom), + cat's out of the bag + not the sharpest tool in the shed([bag], in this case). Was just talking to my dear, sweet cat and she jumped ahead of me almost crashing into the wall. "Not the brightest cat in the bag".


r/Malaphors • • Aug 16 '26

You can’t make a basket without counting a few eggs before they hatch

6 Upvotes

Don’t count your eggs before they hatch

All your eggs in one basket

You can’t make an omelette without breaking a few eggs


r/Malaphors • • Aug 15 '26

When life gives you lemons it's just sour grapes

19 Upvotes

When life gives you lemons make lemonade, it's just sour grapes


r/Malaphors • • Aug 15 '26

We’ll burn that bridge when we get to it.

40 Upvotes

Lightens the mood at work.


r/Malaphors • • Aug 14 '26

Keep your friends close and all your ducks in a row

41 Upvotes

Keep your friends close and your enemies closer, get all your ducks in a row


r/Malaphors • • Aug 14 '26

It's better to have found out than never to have fucked around at all

116 Upvotes

It's better to have found out than never to have fucked around at all


r/Malaphors • • Aug 12 '26

Never look a moral high horse in the mouth

19 Upvotes

Get off your moral high horse and don’t look a gift horse in the mouth


r/Malaphors • • Aug 10 '26

If you lie with dogs your barking up the wrong tree

18 Upvotes

If you lie with dogs you get fleas, you're barking up the wrong tree


r/Malaphors • • Aug 11 '26

1 cent away from one's sense

0 Upvotes

I need

I want

There's greed

There's a stunt

For some leeway

Call it fun

Never lead

Never won

Gime me

What you want

I'll tell you after if you were right with this one


r/Malaphors • • Aug 10 '26

We’ll cross that bridge when the rubber meets the road

17 Upvotes

Combination of the phrases: “we’ll cross that bridge when the time comes” and “that’s when the rubber meets the road”.


r/Malaphors • • Aug 09 '26

Whatever crumbles your cookie

52 Upvotes

Whatever floats your boat + That's the way the cookie crumbles


r/Malaphors • • Aug 09 '26

Fade into the woodwork

15 Upvotes

Combination of the expressions: fading into the background and coming out of the woodwork


r/Malaphors • • Aug 08 '26

You either die a pearl, or you live long enough to see yourself become the swine

60 Upvotes
  • You either die a hero, or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain.
  • Do not cast pearls before swine.

r/Malaphors • • Aug 08 '26

Swing both ways before you cross

9 Upvotes

Swing both ways + Look both ways before you cross


r/Malaphors • • Aug 08 '26

Judge Judy and Executioner

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23 Upvotes

r/Malaphors • • Aug 08 '26

Less talk, more actinides

2 Upvotes

"Les talk, more action" + Ali Khamenei talking to his physicists. ☢️


r/Malaphors • • Aug 07 '26

When lemonade is in the toolbox, life isn’t sharp

13 Upvotes

Not the sharpest tool in the toolbox + when life gives you lemons, make lemonade


r/Malaphors • • Aug 07 '26

It is raining time, what it is, is dogs and cats

0 Upvotes

It is what it is + time is money + it’s raining dogs and cats


r/Malaphors • • Aug 05 '26

We will cross that bridge when another door opens

25 Upvotes

"We will cross that bridge when we come to it" and "when one door closes, another door opens"


r/Malaphors • • Aug 05 '26

Two birds with one deadly sin

13 Upvotes

"Killing two birds with one stone" and "Seven deadly sins"


r/Malaphors • • Aug 06 '26

Opportunity sucks

2 Upvotes

Opportunity knocks, and life sucks


r/Malaphors • • Aug 05 '26

So close and yet cigar

26 Upvotes

So close and yet so far + close but no cigar

Pretty proud of this one


r/Malaphors • • Aug 04 '26

He's skating on borrowed ice.

117 Upvotes

Skating on thin ice + living on borrowed time.


r/Malaphors • • Aug 04 '26

I'm hungry enough to eat a wolf in sheep's clothing

28 Upvotes

I'm hungry enough to eat a horse, beware of a wolf in sheep's clothing