I’ve hit a dead wall
Posted: August 22, 2025 Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: expressions, humor, language, malaphors, words 3 CommentsThis malaphor was overheard in a discussion with a friend. It is a congruent conflation of “hit a wall” and “dead tired”, both meaning to be totally exhausted or fatigued. The speaker might have also been thinking of a “dead space”. A big thanks to Donna Doblick for sending this one in.
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Or perhaps he reached a dead end
Certainly a possibility!