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Malaphor

Clive Griffiths
Clive Griffiths

Just learned the word malaphor today.

It's a blend of metaphor and malapropism, and it describes that funny slip when two idioms or clichés accidentally get mashed together into nonsense

Like saying “Hammer House of Horror Time.”

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