He is going squirrel crazy
Posted: January 31, 2013 Filed under: ANIMALS, squirrel | Tags: blended idioms, expressions, humor, malaphors, mixed idioms, squirrelly, squirrels, stir-crazy, wordplay, words Leave a commentI said this one today, referring to a friend who is in the hospital. It is a conflation of “stir-crazy” and “squirrelly”, both meaning being restless. I actually think this congruent malaphor describes a restless person better than the two phrases. After all, what can be more agitated than a crazy squirrel?
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