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“Slept like a light bulb”
Posted by: DeusxMac
Date: July 20, 2024 08:59PM
After a suite-mate announced this phrase one morning many years ago, my ear has been tuned to notice instances where two expressions get mashed together, usually unwittingly.

Just noticed “win in a cakewalk”, which is a mashup of “win in a walk”; an old horse racing expression, and describing some activity as a “cakewalk”; as easy (a pre-Civil War dance originally performed by slaves on plantation grounds*).

*Also the origin of the expression that something good “takes the cake”.
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Re: “Slept like a light bulb”
Posted by: cbelt3
Date: July 20, 2024 09:10PM
Ah…. spoonerisms..
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Re: “Slept like a light bulb”
Posted by: RAMd®d
Date: July 20, 2024 09:42PM
Not a spoonerism.

More like mixed metaphors.






I am that Masked Man.

All you can do, is all you can do.

There’s trouble — it's time to play the sound of my people.

Your boos mean nothing to me, I've seen what you cheer for.

Insisting on your rights without acknowledging your responsibilities isn’t freedom, it’s adolescence.

I've been to the edge of the map, and there be monsters.

We are a government of laws, not men.

Everybody counts or nobody counts.

When a good man is hurt,
all who would be called good
must suffer with him.

At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them.

You and I have memories longer than the road that stretches out ahead.

There is no safety for honest men except
by believing all possible evil of evil men.

We don’t do focus groups. They just ensure that you don’t offend anyone, and produce bland inoffensive products. —Sir Jonathan Ive

An armed society is a polite society.
And hope is a lousy defense.

You make me pull, I'll put you down.

I *love* SIGs. It's Glocks I hate.
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Re: “Slept like a light bulb”
Posted by: Dennis S
Date: July 21, 2024 12:07AM
I knew a guy who said, “Like pulling hen’s teeth.”
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Re: “Slept like a light bulb”
Posted by: RAMd®d
Date: July 21, 2024 06:40AM
I knew a guy who deliberately mixed the traditional metaphors/homilies/whatever, and it was annoying, mainly because they were basically nonsensical.

Then there are people who just don't get it right, like 'happy as a pig in filthy mud.

One my hear it a lot as a TV trope spoken by an attractive foreign woman trying to use American idioms.






I am that Masked Man.

All you can do, is all you can do.

There’s trouble — it's time to play the sound of my people.

Your boos mean nothing to me, I've seen what you cheer for.

Insisting on your rights without acknowledging your responsibilities isn’t freedom, it’s adolescence.

I've been to the edge of the map, and there be monsters.

We are a government of laws, not men.

Everybody counts or nobody counts.

When a good man is hurt,
all who would be called good
must suffer with him.

At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them.

You and I have memories longer than the road that stretches out ahead.

There is no safety for honest men except
by believing all possible evil of evil men.

We don’t do focus groups. They just ensure that you don’t offend anyone, and produce bland inoffensive products. —Sir Jonathan Ive

An armed society is a polite society.
And hope is a lousy defense.

You make me pull, I'll put you down.

I *love* SIGs. It's Glocks I hate.
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Re: “Slept like a light bulb”
Posted by: Black
Date: July 21, 2024 07:28AM
What is the "light bulb" metaphor supposed to be?
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Re: “Slept like a light bulb”
Posted by: pdq
Date: July 21, 2024 08:04AM
“I could care less”

“The importance of <something> cannot be underestimated”.

Other semi-related ear-irritants include “Take a pitcher with your camera”.
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Re: “Slept like a light bulb”
Posted by: DeusxMac
Date: July 21, 2024 09:30AM
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Black
What is the "light bulb" metaphor supposed to be?

He’d mashed up “out like a light” with “slept like a log”.
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Re: “Slept like a light bulb”
Posted by: GGD
Date: July 21, 2024 09:44AM
“Slept like a door nail”
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Re: “Slept like a light bulb”
Posted by: ka jowct
Date: July 21, 2024 11:08AM
I hear some of them way too often on crime TV: "played a factor" is one that really bugs me. Something can play role, or be a factor, but nothing can "play a factor".



My life goes smoothly and in regular intervals
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Re: “Slept like a light bulb”
Posted by: mrbigstuff
Date: July 21, 2024 11:49AM
Make like a tree and get outta here.



High on a threshold yearning to sing
Down with the dancers having one last fling
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Re: “Slept like a light bulb”
Posted by: DeusxMac
Date: July 21, 2024 11:54AM
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mrbigstuff
Make like a tree and get outta here.

I think the mashup might be "Make like a tree, and beat it!"
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Re: “Slept like a light bulb”
Posted by: mrbigstuff
Date: July 21, 2024 12:17PM
The more ridiculous, the better.



High on a threshold yearning to sing
Down with the dancers having one last fling
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Re: “Slept like a light bulb”
Posted by: Rick-o
Date: July 21, 2024 02:14PM
C'mon! This isn't rocket surgery! Sheesh! RollingEyesSmiley5



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Randy: What the @#$%& are you talking about?
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Re: “Slept like a light bulb”
Posted by: datbeme
Date: July 21, 2024 03:29PM
"Take a short walk on a long pier"

- Archie Bunker
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Re: “Slept like a light bulb”
Posted by: August West
Date: July 21, 2024 04:33PM
I've been a Jim Jarmusch fan since the get go, and a favorite is Down by Law. In it, Roberto Benigni was cast without really speaking English and made many malapropisms, mixed metaphors, etc. throughout. Recommended.



“Every great and deep difficulty bears in itself its own solution. It forces us to change our thinking in order to find it."

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Re: “Slept like a light bulb”
Posted by: DeusxMac
Date: July 21, 2024 06:39PM
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Re: “Slept like a light bulb”
Posted by: Fritz
Date: July 22, 2024 02:19PM
mixed spoonaphors with reposado. pretty tasty.



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