I couldn’t make head or hair of it
Posted: July 23, 2013 | Author: davemalaphor | Filed under: hair, head, tail | Tags: blended idioms, expressions, heads or tails, humor, language, malaphors, mixed idioms, neither hide nor hair, words |Leave a commentThis classic is a mash up of “neither hide nor hair” (no sign of someone or something) and “can’t make heads or tails out of it” (unable to understand someone or something). A big thank you to Yvonne Stam for hearing and sharing this malaphor.
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