Donald Trump has kind of walked right into Biden’s hands

Savannah Guthrie on the Today Show was discussing the upcoming date of the debate. This is a congruent conflation of ” walked/fell into a trap” and “play (right) into (one’s) hands”, both meaning to unwittingly do exactly what one wants in order for one’s plans to succeed. Of course, this could be deadly given the virus and Trump being contagious. A big thanks to Mike Kovacs for hearing this one and sending it in.

It was driving energy prices through the sky

Another from the Malaphorer-in-Chief, and this time uttered in the recent Presidential “debate” (I put that in quotes as it did not resemble in any way a debate).  Mr. Trump responded to the moderator’s question about why he rolled back the Clean Power Plan, a set of Obama-era Environmental Protection Agency regulations designed to curb planet-warming pollution from coal-fired power plants, by saying they were sending energy prices skyward. In fact, most of the Clean Power Plan was never implemented: it was temporarily halted by a 2016 Supreme Court order and never reinstated before the Trump administration effectively rolled it back last year.  https://www.nytimes.com/live/2020/09/29/us/debate-fact-check

This is a congruent conflation of “through the roof” and “go sky-high”, both meaning for prices to become very high.  A shout out to Jake Holdcroft who heard this gem and passed it on.