How are you going?

A friend met up with his buddy to take their daily walk and he blurted out this salutation. It is a mashup of “How are you doing?” and “How’s it going?” This one may sound familiar, as it is spoken frequently. Malaphors sometimes just involve a substitute of one tiny word in a phrase. A tip of the hat to Martin Pietrucha for saying this one unintentionally and promptly sending it in.

In my research of this phrase, I found out that it is an accepted idiom in Australia – “How ya goin’?” So it’s not a malaphor in the Land Down Under. For the record, Mr. Pietrucha is not Australian.