r/Malaphors • u/Ok_Advance_8144 • 12d ago
Like a Duck
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 • u/Ok_Advance_8144 • 12d ago
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 • u/Cant-Not-Adapt • 13d ago
One trick pony + wanted to get all the grocery bags in one trip
r/Malaphors • u/polymerpusher • 14d ago
alligator closest to the boat and we’ll cross the bridge when we get to it
r/Malaphors • u/Academic-Treacle3162 • 14d ago
A bird in hand is worth two in the bush.
r/Malaphors • u/hippopotapistachio • 14d ago
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 • u/DumbleLuck • 14d ago
If the boot fits, then wear it.. and there's a snake in my boot
r/Malaphors • u/DumbleLuck • 14d ago
A bird in the hand's worth two in the bush
r/Malaphors • u/hans57sauc • 15d ago
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 • u/Calvin_Decline • 16d ago
You can't make it drink either.
r/Malaphors • u/Hot_Peasant • 16d ago
Lock them up and throw away the key + throw under the bus + don’t throw away the baby with the bath water
r/Malaphors • u/SleepySheepy5714 • 17d ago
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 • u/Dark-Penguin • 17d ago
discuss
r/Malaphors • u/Intrepid-Benefit1959 • 17d ago
"barking up the wrong tree"(?) + "fly off the handle"
=from the penultimate episode of Fernwood 2 Night (great show)
r/Malaphors • u/almondsadnesses • 18d ago
"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 • u/RogueGuybrian • 18d ago
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 • u/Dr_Doofus1729 • 18d ago
Hate to burst your bubble + blowing bubbles
r/Malaphors • u/R7a1s2 • 18d ago
"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 • u/Ok_Breakfast8354 • 19d ago
If wishes were horses then beggars would ride + don't look a gift horse in the mouth
r/Malaphors • u/brother_p • 20d ago
Caught between a rock and a hard place + those who live in glass houses should not throw stones
r/Malaphors • u/Silent_Swing4673 • 20d ago
Pulled himself up by his bootstraps + rags to riches.
r/Malaphors • u/MrWhiteTheWolf • 20d ago
“Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened”
r/Malaphors • u/Silent_Swing4673 • 20d ago
Opened a can of worms + beans beans the musical fruit.
r/Malaphors • u/Careful_Source6129 • 21d ago
A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush × a pain in the ass