I slept like a dog last night

Dogs sleep pretty soundly, but this is definitely a malaphor.  It is a mash up of “slept like a log (or baby)” (restful sleep)  and “let sleeping dogs lie” (do not instigate trouble).  Nice mix up as it involves assonance (log, dog, and lie, like) and similar words in the phrases (sleep, dog).  This beauty was uttered by John Costello, one of my roving malaphor reporters!

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One Comment on “I slept like a dog last night”

  1. Barry Eigen's avatar Barry Eigen says:

    Sounds to my ear like “worked like a dog” was in the speaker’s mind too.


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