All your eggs lined up
Posted: July 25, 2012 Filed under: ANIMALS, FOOD, PLACES | Tags: ducks, eggs, expressions, malaphor, mixed idiom, scrambled eggs, words 4 CommentsThis is a mix-up of “lining up your ducks in a row” and “all your eggs in one basket”. Since ducks lay eggs, does the mind want to “scramble” eggs and ducks?
Never count your eggs before they hatch
Posted: July 9, 2012 Filed under: ANIMALS, chicken, eggs, FOOD 1 Comment
A mix of never count your chickens before they hatch and all your eggs in one basket. Seems that the brain connects eggs with chickens and then the jumbled mess pours out of the mouth. I heard this one from one of my work colleagues, who I will refer to in the future as “the master”.
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