I had a sneaking hunch

Publicity photo of American Bandstand host Dic...

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