Ignorance of the law is nine-tenths of the law
Posted: October 22, 2017 Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: expressions, humor, ignorance of the law is no excuse, language, malaphor, malaphors, possession is nine-tenths of the law, words 2 CommentsMany lawyers would agree with this malaphor. It is a mashup of the following two sayings: “ignorance of the law is no excuse” (even if you don’t know that something is illegal, you can still be punished for doing it) and “possession is nine-tenths of the law” (if you actually possess something, you have a stronger legal claim to owning it than someone who merely says it belongs to him or her). A big thanks to Desiree Lees for hearing this one and sending it here!
Malaphors 
“It’s finally sinking through”–a mashup of “sinking in” and “getting through.” Guess who it’s from.
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/922072236592435200?wpmm=1&wpisrc=nl_daily202 “It is finally sinking through. 46% OF PEOPLE BELIEVE MAJOR NATIONAL NEWS ORGS FABRICATE STORIES ABOUT ME. FAKE NEWS, even worse! Lost cred.”
I actually received that one about two hours after he tweeted. It is a work of art, malaphorically speaking…