That lady knows everything – she’s a phantom of knowledge.
From a twitter thread started by Joe Jeffries
A mix up of
- Fount of knowledge (not “font”), and
- Phantom pain, or perhaps
- Phantom punch.
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
