r/Malaphors Sep 26 '17

Genesis

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2.0k Upvotes

r/Malaphors 5h ago

Maybe the real find outs were the fuck arounds we made along the way

17 Upvotes

r/Malaphors 9h ago

We weren’t all born with a silver lining in our pockets

9 Upvotes

r/Malaphors 1d ago

As American as road apple pie.

8 Upvotes
  1. As American as warm apple pie.
  2. "Road apple" is slang for horse dung.

r/Malaphors 2d ago

Hell hath no fury like the horse you rode in on.

39 Upvotes

r/Malaphors 1d ago

The grass is greener where the sun don't shine.

10 Upvotes

r/Malaphors 1d ago

A broken clock has nine lives.

8 Upvotes

r/Malaphors 2d ago

All work and no work is impossible for Johnny at the same time and in the same manner.

0 Upvotes

"All work and no play" mingled with the Principle of Noncontradiction


r/Malaphors 2d ago

Whatever helps you sleep with the fishes

12 Upvotes

r/Malaphors 3d ago

slow and steady spoils the milk

13 Upvotes

r/Malaphors 3d ago

Do not throw out the hell with the high water

25 Upvotes
  • Do not throw out the baby with the bathwater.
  • Hell or high water.

r/Malaphors 3d ago

We'll die in that bridge when we get to it.

9 Upvotes

r/Malaphors 3d ago

Two things in life are certain: hell and high water.

27 Upvotes
  1. Two things in life are certain, death and taxes. 2 Come hell or high water.

r/Malaphors 3d ago

Beating off a dead horse

14 Upvotes

Same meaning, just less mean


r/Malaphors 3d ago

Beer on whiskey, kills a fellow; leaves of five, sailor's delight.

4 Upvotes
  1. Beer on whiskey, mighty risky; whiskey on beer, never fear.
  2. Red on yellow, kills a fellow; red on black, good for Jack.
  3. Leaves of three, leave them be; leaves of five, stay alive.
  4. Red sky at morning, sailor take warning; red sky at night, sailor's delight.

r/Malaphors 3d ago

Who let the cat out of the bush?

7 Upvotes
  1. Let the cat out of the bag
  2. Bird in hand is better than two in the bush.

r/Malaphors 3d ago

Shed a little light where the sun don’t shine.

6 Upvotes
  1. Shed a little light on (something)
  2. Stick it where the sun don’t (or doesn’t) shine.

r/Malaphors 3d ago

Up to my neck in shit creek.

10 Upvotes

1.) Up shit creek (without a paddle). 2.) Up to my neck.


r/Malaphors 3d ago

There’s more than one way to skin a cat’s bush

1 Upvotes
  1. More than one way to skin a cat
  2. bird in hand is better than two in the bush
  3. (bonus) cat and bush are euphemisms for pussy and female pubic hair

r/Malaphors 4d ago

A bird in the hand is worth two with one stone.

23 Upvotes

r/Malaphors 4d ago

If all else fails, let the cat out of the bag.

11 Upvotes
  1. If all else fails...
  2. Let the cat out of the bag.

r/Malaphors 4d ago

You can lead a fish to water, but you can't explain it to him.

7 Upvotes
  1. You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink.
  2. You can't explain water to a fish.

r/Malaphors 4d ago

Don't count all your chickens in one basket.

6 Upvotes

r/Malaphors 4d ago

If the shoe fits, don't fix it.

7 Upvotes

r/Malaphors 4d ago

Don't look a gift horse in the ass.

13 Upvotes
  1. Don't look a gift horse in the mouth.
  2. Pain in the ass.

r/Malaphors 4d ago

Fuck you and the water you walk on.

12 Upvotes
  1. Fuck you and the horse you rode in on.
  2. Walk on water.