JFK was a duck in a barrel
Posted: November 30, 2013 Filed under: ACTION, ANIMALS, duck, shoot | Tags: Assassination, Assassination of John F. Kennedy, blended idioms, humor, John F. Kennedy, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, language, malaphors, mixed idioms, shooting fish in a barrel, sitting duck, words 3 Comments
Picture of President Kennedy in the limousine in Dallas, Texas, on Main Street, minutes before the assassination. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
This phrase mixes “sitting duck” (someone vulnerable to an attack) and “shooting fish in a barrel” (ridiculously easy). A big thanks to Michael Ameel for hearing this one on a radio program recently about the Kennedy assassination. An expert on the show indicated that JFK was an easy target, and blurted out this malaphor. It is similar to the 1/16/13 entry, “It’s like shooting ducks in a barrel”.
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Love this one. Always wondered where shooting fish in a barrel came from. Never seemed like it would be that easy.
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Well Dave, it was this past Thursday I believe on the Today Show and I don’t recall her name but it was a lady giving advice on how women can network to get back into a career after being out of work for a long time. She gave an example of web ideas she gave a new business woman then said, “it will help you get your toe in the door” Your former colleague , Ron Marks
Great one, Ron. Foot in the door and toe in the water, right?