The economy has hit tank bottom
Posted: June 22, 2026 Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: Ben Meiselas, expressions, humor, language, malaphors, MeidasTouch, mixed idioms, Trump, words 1 CommentThis one was heard on the YouTube program “MeidasTouch with Ben Meiselas”. He said this during a discussion of the current state of the U.S. economy. It is a congruent conflation of “tanked” and “hit rock bottom”, both meaning something is going down to the absolute worst level. Hats off to frequent malaphor contributor Mike Kovacs for hearing this one and sending it in.

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