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minus-squareValenThyme@reddthat.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down1·3 days ago‘chest of draws’ was a weird one for me!
minus-squareReyali@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 days agoBut that’s just a ‘bone apple tea’ of “chest of drawers”? It’s not a correct term. (I figured surely there’s an actual word for misheard terms being butchered in writing, but a quick search failed me so I went with the colloquial name.)
minus-squarebadgermurphy@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 days agoThere’s “malapropism” that is sort of close, but even that is more like accidentally combining parts of two idioms. It was named after a character in a play that always did it.
‘chest of draws’ was a weird one for me!
But that’s just a ‘bone apple tea’ of “chest of drawers”? It’s not a correct term.
(I figured surely there’s an actual word for misheard terms being butchered in writing, but a quick search failed me so I went with the colloquial name.)
There’s “malapropism” that is sort of close, but even that is more like accidentally combining parts of two idioms.
It was named after a character in a play that always did it.