The last book I read was a real page burner
Posted: January 15, 2013 | Author: davemalaphor | Filed under: book, THINGS | Tags: barn burner, blended idioms, books, congruent, expressions, language, linguistics, malaphors, mixed idioms, page turner, wordplay, words |Leave a commentThis congruent malaphor is a mash up of “page turner” and “barn burner”, both meaning something very exciting. I like this one as it seems to stand on its own, describing a book that is so compelling that you seem to “burn” through it. Then again, it could mean something totally different for those fascist minded folks out there….
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