“I don’t have a horse in this dog”: incoherent, fanciful, drunk
Grim? Tell spanish people: “I don’t have a candle in this burial.”
Not my circus, not my monkeys.
“Shit or get out of the kitchen” is my current favorite malaphor.
I use “We’ll burn that bridge when we come to it” pretty frequently myself
“not the sharpest knife in the cookie jar”
Sure. It ain’t rocket surgery.
"I’m not the sharpest crayon in the basket. "
“Does the pope shit in the woods?”
“He was like a dildo in a lightbulb store: wasn’t the brightest, but never failed to please his teacher.”
“I don’t have a sea slug in this drive by.” Conjures images of underwater sea violence and muddies your message.
My two favorite malaphors:
- It’s not rocket surgery.
- We will burn that bridge when we get to it.
That’s all water under the fridge at this point.
Not sure what’s the idiom with “fridge” in it.
There isn’t one, it’s a malaphor imposter!
Malaphor, my new favorite word Also: “she looks like she’s been through the run of the mill”
“He looks like he fell out of the Ugly Tree and hit every branch on the way down.”
I use those both regularly. And people seem totally unable to tell whether I am doing it on purpose.
I’m not a native English speaker, but in my experience “I don’t have a horse in this race” seems more common.
I’m a native, and I’d agree. But it’s a funny post so, I’ll ignore that.
IMO, “dog in this fight” is more common where Ive lived: Appalachia, mid-Atlantic, Midwest. I wouldn’t be surprised if it also varies by region, class, etc.
“I don’t have a hot dog in this bun” - me to the Costco worker.
"Whatever guy, it’s like $2 and I know you just swallowed the whole damn thing, but here, sure, I’ll give you another one while you hold your bag with 5 pounds of hot pockets and a 3L bottle of Johnny Walker blue. "
-the Costco worker
I don’t have a dog in this horse.
I don’t have a race in this fight.
“I don’t fight in other people’s races.”
Implies that my fighting is done strictly at my own behest:-).
“I don’t have a monkey in this circus”
that is not my beer
are the Finns okay
Jack Black fantastic
Depends whether their cow is in a ditch
i have no beef in this stew
‘Corn Maze’ by Aesop Rock
“The phone pings from a pillow fort in a corn maze. I don’t have a horse in your war games”
