Turned back the fountain of time
Posted: November 14, 2025 Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: expressions, hockey, humor, illegal curve, language, malaphors, mixed idioms, words Leave a commentThis malaphor was uttered by Drew Mindell of the Illegal Curve Hockey Show at 29:25 of https://www.youtube.com/live/J_4e-wKHKWc?si=SxMlLjTYBThPGEW6&t=1764
It is a congruent conflation of “fountain of youth” and “turn back the hands of time/clock”, both meaning to restore one’s youth. A big thanks to Will for spotting this one and sending it in.

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