When it boils down to it
Posted: February 6, 2013 Filed under: ACTION, boil | Tags: blended idioms, boils down, expressions, humor, language, malaphors, mixed idioms, when it comes down to it, words Leave a commentMartin, a professor at a famous university, saw this in a paper he was reviewing and shared it with me. It is a mash up of “when it comes right down to it” and “boils down to (something)”. It also is in a headline in that very popular website, justkateplus8.com:
When it boils down to it,isn’t Kate Gosselin a good-looking woman?
http://justkateplus8.com/when-it-boils-down-to-itisnt-kate-gosselin-a-good-looking-woman/
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