I had a sneaking hunch

Posted: August 9, 2013 | Author: davemalaphor | Filed under: hunch | Tags: blended idioms, Chordettes, conflation, congruent conflation, Dick Clark, have a hunch, have a sneaking suspicion, humor, language, malaphors, mixed idioms, television, words | 2 Comments

Publicity photo of American Bandstand host Dick Clark. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

This congruent conflation mixes “I had a sneaking suspicion” and “I had a hunch”, both meaning to have a feeling or premonition. This beauty was found by Laszlo Veres on a You Tube video of an old Dick Clark Bandstand show. Dick was interviewing the Chordettes (Lollipop) and you can hear the malaphor at 3:21 of the video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fty3Nzc-oiY

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