Malaphors
Malaphors: Combine malapropisms and mixed metaphors, and you've got a malaphor. It's a "mixture of two idioms, creating a sort of malaprop in metaphor form." A famous example is the song "We'll Burn That Bridge When We Get There," although that was intentional.
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I remember seeing scrawled on a toilet wall at College:
"Life is like a metaphor"
Under which someone wrote:
"No you fool! Like is like a simile!"
My personal fave is, "It's not rocket surgery."
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