Let’s get to the chase
Posted: October 28, 2015 Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: congruent conflation, cut to the chase, expressions, get to the point, howard stern, humor, language, malaphor, malaphors, words Leave a commentThis nice, subtle malaphor was spoken by Patricia “Tan Mom” Krentcil during her guest appearance on The Howard Stern show, talking about her love for Stern Show staff member Sal Governale. It is a congruent conflation of “cut to the chase” and “get to the point”, both meaning to abandon the preliminaries and focus on what is important. A big shout out to Mike “the Malaphor Slayer” Kovacs for hearing this one and passing it on.

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