They were going butt-to-butt
Posted: January 29, 2014 Filed under: BODY PARTS, butt, head | Tags: butt, butting heads, congruent conflation, expressions, head, head butting, head-to-head, humor, language, malaphor, malaphors, mixed idioms, words Leave a commentIn describing an angry argument, the speaker uttered this malaphor, a mash up of the phrases “head-to-head” and “butting heads”, both describing a confrontation or argument. Head butting also comes to mind, among other images… I will not display a picture for this malaphor. Many thanks to Naomi David for giving me this gem!
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