Stop yanking my leg
Posted: January 3, 2013 Filed under: ACTION, BODY PARTS, leg, yank | Tags: blended idioms, expressions, malaphors, mixed idioms, pulling my leg, words, yanking my chain Leave a commentThis wonderful congruent malaphor is a mash up of “pulling my leg” (tricking or fooling someone) and “yanking my chain” (bothering someone). Or then again, it could be a physical therapy patient protesting…. Thanks to Anna Washabaugh for contributing this one!
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