You start that, and you won’t be able to stop; it’s a vicious triangle.
A mixed idiom made up of
- A vicious circle, and
- The Bermuda Triangle, or perhaps even
- A love triangle / eternal triangle.
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
An ex colleague was famed for his take on sayings, my all time favourite was “it’s a vicious triangle”, he was also amazed one year when Good Friday fell on a Friday
— Rachel Hood (@r17ood) 14 January 2018
