Just a wild stab
Posted: November 7, 2013 Filed under: guess | Tags: blended idioms, expressions, humor, language, malaphors, mixed idioms, take a stab at, wild guess, words 3 CommentsMalaphors appear everywhere, and this one appeared as a response to one of my malaphor postings. When I posted “I will not yield to a monkey court”, my good friend and avid malaphor follower Laszlo Veres responded, “was he talking to his fellow Dems? (just a wild stab… wait…wow, I just invented a malaphor!”). Wild stab is a mash up of “wild guess” and “take (or make) a stab”. The unintentional malaphor response to a malaphor makes this one a particular favorite of mine!
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I think I heard a new variation of “wild stab”. I’m in London and watched a quiz show called “Tipping Point.” A contestant said “I’m going to take a wild stab in the dark.” A double malaphor? Cheers!
[…] who heard this, suggested that this was a double malaphor. I did post “wild stab” (https://malaphors.com/2013/11/07/just-a-wild-stab/) in 2013, but this one does add “in the dark”, creating a double malaphor. “A […]