He did it at the drop of a dime
Posted: July 30, 2012 Filed under: ACTION, THINGS | Tags: blended idiom, dime, expressions, hat, malaphor, mixed idiom, words 4 CommentsPretty straightforward malaphor? Seems like a combination of “do at the drop of a hat” and “he dropped the dime”. Very different meanings, but the word “drop” apparently led the speaker to think “dime” instead of “hat” (alliteration perhaps?) and thus another malaphor was born.
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