The shit hit the roof

Posted: September 20, 2014 | Author: | Filed under: PLACES, roof | Tags: , , , , , , , , , | 1 Comment

Well, maybe in the Hitchcock movie “The Birds”, but in this case, the speaker was trying to say “the shit hit the fan” (when expected trouble materializes) and instead mixed it with “hit the roof” (get angry), creating a juicy (s0rry, wrong description), nice malaphor.  Thanks to Katie Hatfield for her malaphor contribution.