You nailed that right on the head

Posted: September 24, 2014 | Author: | Filed under: BODY PARTS, head, nail, THINGS | Tags: , , , , , , , , | 4 Comments

This one comes to us courtesy of CBS Sports.   Mike Carey, the “CBS Officiating Expert” on the NFL, said this beauty during the Denver-Kansas City game.  This is a congruent conflation of  “hit the nail on the head”  and “nailed it”, both meaning to do exactly the right thing.  This is a particular good one, as it is subtle and combines phrases with the same meaning.  Some of the confusion lies in the visual of hammering a nail on its head.   It is similar to “You hit it right on the nail”, reported on 8/29/12 in this website.  A big thank you to Mike Kovacs for reporting this one!

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the last straw in the coffin

Posted: November 22, 2012 | Author: | Filed under: coffin, nail, PLACES, straw, THINGS | Tags: , , , , , , , | 3 Comments

This is a mash up of “the last straw” and “another nail in the coffin” (both meaning the final problem that will lead to a collapse or end).   I saw this one on yardflex.com, which is a website about Jamaican issues:

“All respect to Trinidad, but they own more of the country’s assets than we do, selling them Air Jamaica will now be the last straw in the coffin.”

http://www.yardflex.com/archives/005475.html

I AM the malaphor king, mon.