Posted: March 30, 2013 | Author: davemalaphor | Filed under: pony | Tags: blended idioms, expressions, humor, language, malaphors, mixed idioms, one act play, one trick pony, pony, trick, words |
Okay, so is it fair to post your spouse’s malaphors? My wife said this one last night, referring to a college basketball player. This is a mash up of “one trick pony” and I think “one act play“. Pony and play are four letter words beginning with P and ending with y, which is part of the confusion. Ponies are certainly playful as well.
Posted: December 6, 2012 | Author: davemalaphor | Filed under: ANIMALS, bar, belly, PLACES, pony | Tags: bar jokes, belly up, blended idioms, expressions, malaphors, mixed idioms, pony up, words |
This is a mash up of “pony up” (to pay money) and “belly up to the bar” (approach the bar). The confusion might also involve the phrase “belly up” (go broke) as it also involves the word “up”. Finally, the speaker might be thinking of those “animal goes into the bar” jokes. For example –
A seal walks into a bar. The bartender asks, “What’ll you have?” The seal replies, “Anything but Canadian Club.”
Or maybe this is the one that the speaker was thinking about – A horse goes into a bar. Bartender says, “Why the long face?”
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