mixed metaphor

English

Noun

Examples
until the cows freeze over rocket surgery

mixed metaphor (plural mixed metaphors)

1. (linguistics) An overreaching, contradictory or incongruous combination of two distinct metaphors, similes or idioms.

Translations

Translations

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 混合隱喻／混合隐喻

• Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: ontuva vertausten yhdistelmä, ontuva vertaus (not necessarily a combination)
• French: métaphore mixte f
• German: verknüpfte Metaphern f pl
• Polish: mieszana metafora f
• Spanish: please add this translation if you can

See also

• malaphor