Malaphors

I’ll bet my last doughnut April 13, 2020 - (0)
Nicole Wallace said this one on MSNBC the other day. This is a congruent conflation of “bet (one’s) bottom (or last) dollar” and “dollars to doughnuts” both meaning something certain to happen. Sometimes the phrase includes the spelling “donuts”. The alliterative quality probably induced the mixup. As for the phrase, “dollars to donuts”, it was […]
I’m going to go with my first gut April 10, 2020 - (0)
The Captain of the aircraft carrier didn’t raise alarm bells April 8, 2020 - (0)
But what if the whole thing goes belly under? April 6, 2020 - (0)
Trump is digging in his feet April 3, 2020 - (1)

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