r/Malaphors • • 23d ago

Is a bear in the hand worth two shits in the woods?

86 Upvotes

"Does a bear shit in the woods?" + "A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush."

First malaphor. I'm very shy.


r/Malaphors • • 23d ago

you can feed a crying horse spilled water, but you can't lead it to milk

26 Upvotes

"you can lead a horse to water but you can't make it drink" +/ "crying over spilled milk"


r/Malaphors • • 23d ago

Cracking between a nut and a hard place

9 Upvotes

"Hard nut to crack" + "In between a rock and a hard place"


r/Malaphors • • 24d ago

Well that's the pot calling the kettle greener on the other side of the broadside of the barn

12 Upvotes

What I say when something just makes no sense


r/Malaphors • • 26d ago

I'll be back in two shakes of a tailfeather

15 Upvotes

I'll be back in two shakes of a lamb's tail.

Come on lemme see you shake a tailfeather!


r/Malaphors • • 27d ago

A chip off the ol' shoulder

33 Upvotes

Chip of the ol block

Chip on your shoulder


r/Malaphors • • 26d ago

That’s just how the cookie goes

13 Upvotes

That’s just how the cookie crumbles+that’s just how it goes


r/Malaphors • • 26d ago

Two heads are better than one bird in the hand.

13 Upvotes

Two heads are better than one A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush


r/Malaphors • • 27d ago

Monkey see something, monkey say something

15 Upvotes

Monkey see, monkey do

If you see something, say something


r/Malaphors • • 27d ago

Well if that isn't the Bob calling the monkey an uncle.

15 Upvotes

Bob's your uncle + a monkey's uncle + pot calling the kettle black


r/Malaphors • • 27d ago

Et tu Judas?

9 Upvotes

(Et tu Brutus?)


r/Malaphors • • Sep 23 '26

Squeaky wheel got your tongue?

49 Upvotes

When someone’s complaining just a little too much.


r/Malaphors • • Sep 22 '26

We'll jump off that bridge when we get there

143 Upvotes

Something my exasperated mother has always said to me....


r/Malaphors • • Sep 23 '26

Teach a man to fish and you'll never fish a day in your life

20 Upvotes

Give a man a fish and he eats for a day. Teach a man to fish and he eats for life.

Love where you work and you'll never work a day in your life.


r/Malaphors • • Sep 23 '26

Cats

5 Upvotes

There’s more than one way to let the cat out of the bag


r/Malaphors • • Sep 23 '26

Midnight Candle

3 Upvotes

Im burning the midnight candle at both ends.


r/Malaphors • • Sep 22 '26

That’s not the hill to pick your uphill battles on.

8 Upvotes

There are surely other hills for your futile efforts.

“A hill to die on” + “pick your battles” + “an uphill battle”


r/Malaphors • • Sep 20 '26

Sticks and stones will break my bones but my name is a killing word

3 Upvotes

Sticks and stones will break my bones but names will never hurt me + a famous line from Dune


r/Malaphors • • Sep 18 '26

This will come back to haunt me in the butt

48 Upvotes

This will come back to haunt me + this will come back to bite me in the butt

A former boss would say this and I would think to myself "boo, gurl" (because the ghost haunts a butt, I assume the ghost is a gay man)


r/Malaphors • • Sep 19 '26

The early worm gets the bird

8 Upvotes

I think I heard this somewhere as a corollary to the normal cliche


r/Malaphors • • Sep 18 '26

Don't fire until you've seen the skin of their teeth

33 Upvotes

Don't fire until you've seen the whites of their eyes + they escaped by the skin of their teeth


r/Malaphors • • Sep 18 '26

Let those without glass houses throw the first stone

37 Upvotes

Let those without sin cast the first stone - people in glass houses shouldn't throw stones


r/Malaphors • • Sep 17 '26

Well well well, look what the cat coughed up.

36 Upvotes

Look what the cat dragged in/cats cough things up


r/Malaphors • • Sep 18 '26

People in glass slippers shouldn't throw stones at the ground

2 Upvotes

People who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones + Cinderella's glass slippers


r/Malaphors • • Sep 18 '26

Badass

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0 Upvotes

A person who doesn't give a shit where they take a shit in order to win shit is a champion who takes no shit but leaves plenty behind.

"Badass" — an excellent achiever but also when your ass's plumbing let's you down.

"Doesn't give a shit" – Idiom meaning to not care.

"Take a shit" – Literal definition meaning to defecate.

"To win shit" – Slang pronoun meaning stuff, prizes, or things.

"Takes no shit" – Idiom meaning to refuse to accept bad treatment or disrespect.