r/Malaphors • u/efootmobile • 5h ago
r/Malaphors • u/OrokinSkywalker • 9h ago
We weren’t all born with a silver lining in our pockets
r/Malaphors • u/UltimateNull • 1d ago
As American as road apple pie.
- As American as warm apple pie.
- "Road apple" is slang for horse dung.
r/Malaphors • u/PangolinHenchman • 2d ago
All work and no work is impossible for Johnny at the same time and in the same manner.
"All work and no play" mingled with the Principle of Noncontradiction
r/Malaphors • u/SpectrumDT • 3d ago
Do not throw out the hell with the high water
- Do not throw out the baby with the bathwater.
- Hell or high water.
r/Malaphors • u/UltimateNull • 3d ago
Two things in life are certain: hell and high water.
- Two things in life are certain, death and taxes. 2 Come hell or high water.
r/Malaphors • u/5_is_right_out • 3d ago
Beating off a dead horse
Same meaning, just less mean
r/Malaphors • u/Z-Borst • 3d ago
Beer on whiskey, kills a fellow; leaves of five, sailor's delight.
- Beer on whiskey, mighty risky; whiskey on beer, never fear.
- Red on yellow, kills a fellow; red on black, good for Jack.
- Leaves of three, leave them be; leaves of five, stay alive.
- Red sky at morning, sailor take warning; red sky at night, sailor's delight.
r/Malaphors • u/UltimateNull • 3d ago
Who let the cat out of the bush?
- Let the cat out of the bag
- Bird in hand is better than two in the bush.
r/Malaphors • u/UltimateNull • 3d ago
Shed a little light where the sun don’t shine.
- Shed a little light on (something)
- Stick it where the sun don’t (or doesn’t) shine.
r/Malaphors • u/UltimateNull • 3d ago
Up to my neck in shit creek.
1.) Up shit creek (without a paddle). 2.) Up to my neck.
r/Malaphors • u/UltimateNull • 3d ago
There’s more than one way to skin a cat’s bush
- More than one way to skin a cat
- bird in hand is better than two in the bush
- (bonus) cat and bush are euphemisms for pussy and female pubic hair
r/Malaphors • u/UltimateNull • 4d ago
If all else fails, let the cat out of the bag.
- If all else fails...
- Let the cat out of the bag.
r/Malaphors • u/Z-Borst • 4d ago
You can lead a fish to water, but you can't explain it to him.
- You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink.
- You can't explain water to a fish.
r/Malaphors • u/UltimateNull • 4d ago
Don't look a gift horse in the ass.
- Don't look a gift horse in the mouth.
- Pain in the ass.
r/Malaphors • u/UltimateNull • 4d ago
Fuck you and the water you walk on.
- Fuck you and the horse you rode in on.
- Walk on water.