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[–] [email protected] 40 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I don't have a dog in this horse.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I don't have a race in this fight.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago

"I don't fight in other people's races."

Implies that my fighting is done strictly at my own behest:-).

[–] [email protected] 39 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

My two favorite malaphors:

  • It's not rocket surgery.
  • We will burn that bridge when we get to it.
[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

That’s all water under the fridge at this point.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Not sure what's the idiom with "fridge" in it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

There isn’t one, it’s a malaphor imposter!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Malaphor, my new favorite word Also: "she looks like she's been through the run of the mill"

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

"He looks like he fell out of the Ugly Tree and hit every branch on the way down."

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago

I use those both regularly. And people seem totally unable to tell whether I am doing it on purpose.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

"Shit or get out of the kitchen" is my current favorite malaphor.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I use "We'll burn that bridge when we come to it" pretty frequently myself

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

"not the sharpest knife in the cookie jar"

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

"I don't have a hot dog in this bun" - me to the Costco worker.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 weeks ago

"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

[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I'm not a native English speaker, but in my experience "I don't have a horse in this race" seems more common.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I'm a native, and I'd agree. But it's a funny post so, I'll ignore that.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

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.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 weeks ago

"I'm not the sharpest crayon in the basket. "

"Does the pope shit in the woods?"

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 weeks ago

"He was like a dildo in a lightbulb store: wasn't the brightest, but never failed to please his teacher."

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 weeks ago

Grim? Tell spanish people: "I don't have a candle in this burial."

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

"I don't have a horse in this dog": incoherent, fanciful, drunk

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 weeks ago

“I don’t have a sea slug in this drive by.” Conjures images of underwater sea violence and muddies your message.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 weeks ago

Not my circus, not my monkeys.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I don't have a don't in this don't.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

This is the true evolution

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

"I don't have a race-fight in this horse-dog" : questionable morals; supernatural or sci-fi undertones; a good chance for double-takes, perhaps even the odd triple-take

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago

I prefer, due to my white trash rural roots:

"That dog won't hunt."

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

There's a YouTuber named Memoria Matters who has an inside joke that she's trying to popularize the idiom "too many dogs on the dance floor". I'm pretty sure it doesn't have any particular meaning, however. It came up quite a few times during her Alien: Isolation let's play, however.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Dammit, that's too fantastic to NOT be an idiom

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago

Depends whether their cow is in a ditch

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

that is not my beer

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

"I dont have a horse in this fight" makes sense if context is Calvary charge. I dk im drunk.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago

And a dog in this race for greyhound racing

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

"I don't have any skin in this game"

Who's betting pieces of skin?

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago

"I don't have a monkey in this circus"

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago

I don't know. I don't have a horse in this dogfight. Still working on his pilot's license.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago

The older "Dog in the hunt" is a bit less grim.

Unless you're a fox...

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago

"I don't have a child with this horse."

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago

i have no beef in this stew

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

'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"

https://redirect.invidious.io/watch?v=gqY2CNMsFKw

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

did someone say synthesis?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

Wow, that does provoke strong imagery. That's a great looking dog in a great looking race. I hope he wins.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

I don't have one horse size duck or 100 duck sized horses in this race.

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