Like a kid in a candy jar

On the Office Ladies podcast, hosted by Jenna Fischer and Angela Kinsey, they talked about some of the best mistaken idioms ever uttered by Angela because she’s prone to such things. One of her favorites was “like a kid in a candy jar.”

This is a mashup of “like a kid in a candy store” (many enticing options from which it is difficult to make a selection) and “caught with (one’s) hands in the cookie jar” (caught in the act of some wrongdoing). Cookies and candies seem to be the mental mixup here. Might be some Willy Wonka sh*t going on here. A big thanks to Jake Lauer for hearing this one and sending it in!