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Word of the Day - Malaphor
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malaphor
noun
An inapropriately mixed metaphor which somehow seems to get the point across anyway.
"It isn't rocket surgery, you know!" said Bob. He was totally unaware that his mixed up metaphor was also a malapropism, a malaphor.
[The The Oxford Dictionaries Online blog describes this word while the ODO dictionary itself fails to contain a definition. Oddity upon oddity.]
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