Post Aaq3TmME6f2OFDNwWW by Teyrnon@dice.camp
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 (DIR) Post #AapzoxY1ITTzDNkHyK by grammargirl@zirk.us
       2023-10-16T19:41:19Z
       
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       I just heard a new mixed metaphor:Bending over tooth and nail. :)
       
 (DIR) Post #Aaq3TmME6f2OFDNwWW by Teyrnon@dice.camp
       2023-10-16T20:22:15Z
       
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       @grammargirl Sadly, I have no idea how to interpret that. Did it make sense in context?
       
 (DIR) Post #Aaq3raPo9uuq9kPe1g by grammargirl@zirk.us
       2023-10-16T20:26:35Z
       
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       @Teyrnon I think he meant "fighting tooth and nail" and just started wrong.
       
 (DIR) Post #Aaq41cN9jkNN7dxJFQ by mediageek@mastodon.social
       2023-10-16T20:28:21Z
       
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       @grammargirl ouch.
       
 (DIR) Post #AaqIAnOJXOuxGDlf5E by cmdln@thecommandline.social
       2023-10-16T23:06:56Z
       
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       @grammargirl Makes me think of conceding something in a very passive-aggressive way.
       
 (DIR) Post #AaqLYKI7gJzRozmeXI by dxzdb@mastodon.social
       2023-10-16T23:44:49Z
       
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       @grammargirl That's a good one. Reminds me of someone saying they were "green behind the ears" 🤣🟩👂
       
 (DIR) Post #Aas8fUL3oWK5vEA8LQ by DespinaCook@aus.social
       2023-10-17T20:29:50Z
       
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       @grammargirl last night I read that a character knew the mountainous area ‘like the back of his horse’. Mixed idiom?
       
 (DIR) Post #AasInMazU9OzlX0Wjg by grammargirl@zirk.us
       2023-10-17T22:23:21Z
       
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       @DespinaCook Haha! It seems like a mixed metaphor, but I'm not sure what the original metaphor that goes with "horse" would be. It could just be a figure of speech called a paraprosdokian where a sentence or phrase takes an unexpected twist.