A colleague, concerned about her weight, declared ‘well I am clinically a beast‘.
From a thread started by Joe Jeffries on twitter.
A mix up of
- Clinically obese, and
- A beast.
The Source of this Mixed Idiom
A tip-off from @sayitwithsocial – social media consultant.
She pointed us to this brilliant twitter thread started by Joe Jeffries here:
My dad used to amuse himself in meetings by noting the mangled idioms of his management colleagues. Here’s some he found in his 1995 diary – verbatim and brilliant. #copywritersunite pic.twitter.com/NGhFmXxeYz— Joe Jeffries (@_joejeffries) January 12, 2018
Joe Jeffries