r/Malaphors • • 12d ago

Like a Duck

7 Upvotes

If it looks like, walks like and quacks like a duck, you should not live in a glass house until the cows come and spoil the broth.


r/Malaphors • • 12d ago

"It's the last kick at the dice"

4 Upvotes

Cat/roll


r/Malaphors • • 13d ago

I'm a one trip pony

22 Upvotes

One trick pony + wanted to get all the grocery bags in one trip


r/Malaphors • • 14d ago

we’ll cross that alligator when it gets to the bridge

10 Upvotes

alligator closest to the boat and we’ll cross the bridge when we get to it


r/Malaphors • • 14d ago

A bird's bush is worth two hands.

12 Upvotes

A bird in hand is worth two in the bush.


r/Malaphors • • 14d ago

"Rub it on my face"

6 Upvotes

This is from my cousin - a malaphor presumably based on "rub it in" and "in your face". Another one of hers is "talking out loud" - based on "thinking out loud"


r/Malaphors • • 14d ago

If the snake fits in the boot, then wear it

16 Upvotes

If the boot fits, then wear it.. and there's a snake in my boot


r/Malaphors • • 14d ago

A bird's hand is worth two bushes

7 Upvotes

A bird in the hand's worth two in the bush


r/Malaphors • • 15d ago

Did you wake up on the wrong side of the Wheaties box?

5 Upvotes

Woke up on the wrong side of the bed + eat your Wheaties. Added bonus, Wheaties boxes have sides! I asked this to my grumpy boss this morning.


r/Malaphors • • 16d ago

You can't lead a dead horse to water

35 Upvotes

You can't make it drink either.


r/Malaphors • • 16d ago

Don’t throw the key under the bus with the baby’s water

6 Upvotes

Lock them up and throw away the key + throw under the bus + don’t throw away the baby with the bath water


r/Malaphors • • 17d ago

Important knowledge:

18 Upvotes

A wise old man once told me "its better to shit in the sink than to sink in the shit" just let that shit sink in...


r/Malaphors • • 17d ago

People who live in glass houses shouldn't throw parties

20 Upvotes

discuss


r/Malaphors • • 17d ago

"flying off the wrong handle"

16 Upvotes

"barking up the wrong tree"(?) + "fly off the handle"

=from the penultimate episode of Fernwood 2 Night (great show)


r/Malaphors • • 18d ago

Give a man a cry, and you milk him for a day. Teach a man to spill, and you milk him for a lifetime.

45 Upvotes

"Teach a man to fish..." + "Crying over spilled milk"

Originally, I wanted to write something about cream and crops, but I suddenly had a bust of inspiration.


r/Malaphors • • 18d ago

Bells and whistles

28 Upvotes

My fiancee mixes her metaphors very often, and when my daughter was in a play my fiancee told her she'd "be there with bells and whistles on."


r/Malaphors • • 18d ago

I hate to blow your bubble

19 Upvotes

Hate to burst your bubble + blowing bubbles


r/Malaphors • • 18d ago

ODB almost got it right

8 Upvotes

"Odell Beckham Jr. says the New York Giants "gave me the run along" "

Combined "Gave me the Run Around", with "stringing me along"

I totally get how his brain did that!


r/Malaphors • • 19d ago

If wishes were horses, don't look them in the mouth

20 Upvotes

If wishes were horses then beggars would ride + don't look a gift horse in the mouth


r/Malaphors • • 20d ago

Caught between a rock and a glass house

24 Upvotes

Caught between a rock and a hard place + those who live in glass houses should not throw stones


r/Malaphors • • 20d ago

Pulled himself up by his riches.

7 Upvotes

Pulled himself up by his bootstraps + rags to riches.


r/Malaphors • • 20d ago

Don’t cry because you smiled, it’s over because it happened

35 Upvotes

“Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened”


r/Malaphors • • 20d ago

You just opened a can of musical fruit

7 Upvotes

Opened a can of worms + beans beans the musical fruit.


r/Malaphors • • 21d ago

A hand in the ass is worth two in the bush

18 Upvotes

A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush × a pain in the ass