Right out of the bat
Posted: March 5, 2020 Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: Cal Perry, humor, language, malaphor, off the bat, out of the gate Leave a commentMSNBC reporter Cal Perry was questioning Andrew Yang about the Trump budget, and said, “What are your thoughts right out of the bat?” This is a mashup of “right off the bat” (immediately) and “out of the gate” (from the start). “Off the top of (one’s) head” (initial thought or reaction) might also be in the mix given the context. A big thanks to Frnak King who heard this one and sent it in.
Right out of the get-go
Posted: March 14, 2019 Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: expressions, from the get-go, Getgo, Giant Eagle, humor, language, malaphor, malaphors, out of the gate, words Leave a commentThis was heard on a podcast. It is a nice congruent conflation of “from the get-go” and “right out of the gate” (immediately, right from the start). Lots of alliteration in this one, contibuting to the mashup. This is not a malaphor in Pittsburgh, however. It means “just finished getting gas”. A big thanks to Vicki Ameel-Kovacs for hearing this one!
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