Be careful. We don’t want to set a president
from a thread started by Joe Jeffries
A mix up of
- Set a precedent, and
- The President.
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
Amusing onward mixers could include “Setting a dangerous president“
