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Push the can forward

Posted: October 9, 2020 | Author: | Filed under: Uncategorized |Leave a comment

Discussing the Covid bailout package, Sibile Marcellus from Yahoo News said this nice malaphor on MSNBC. It is a good example of an incongruent conflation (blend of two idioms with opposite meanings), mashing up “kick the can down the road” (postpone or defer action) and “push forward” (to progress). A shout out to Frank King for hearing this one.

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