He should jump to the chase

Randy Credico uttered this one on MSNBC’s The Beat with Ari Melber the other night.  Credico was talking about encouraging Adam Schiff to take the opportunity to meet with Julian Assange, saying “he should jump to the chase…”  This is a mashup of “cut to the chase” (abandon the preliminaries and focus on what is important) and “jump at the chance” (seize the opportunity).  Similar looking and sounding words “Chance” and “chase” probably were the culprits in this jumble.  A big thanks to “Hawkear” Frank King for sharing this one.

If you haven’t already, you need to jump to the chase to buy my malaphor book, “He Smokes Like a Fish and other Malaphors”, available on Amazon for a mere $6.99.  Let’s get to the chase and buy it!