"Whatever guy, it's like $2 and I know you just swallowed the whole damn thing, but here, sure, I'll give you another one while you hold your bag with 5 pounds of hot pockets and a 3L bottle of Johnny Walker blue. "
IMO, "dog in this fight" is more common where Ive lived: Appalachia, mid-Atlantic, Midwest. I wouldn't be surprised if it also varies by region, class, etc.
"I don't have a race-fight in this horse-dog" : questionable morals; supernatural or sci-fi undertones; a good chance for double-takes, perhaps even the odd triple-take
There's a YouTuber named Memoria Matters who has an inside joke that she's trying to popularize the idiom "too many dogs on the dance floor". I'm pretty sure it doesn't have any particular meaning, however. It came up quite a few times during her Alien: Isolation let's play, however.
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I don't have a dog in this horse.
I don't have a race in this fight.
"I don't fight in other people's races."
Implies that my fighting is done strictly at my own behest:-).
My two favorite malaphors:
That’s all water under the fridge at this point.
Not sure what's the idiom with "fridge" in it.
There isn’t one, it’s a malaphor imposter!
Malaphor, my new favorite word Also: "she looks like she's been through the run of the mill"
"He looks like he fell out of the Ugly Tree and hit every branch on the way down."
I use those both regularly. And people seem totally unable to tell whether I am doing it on purpose.
"Shit or get out of the kitchen" is my current favorite malaphor.
I use "We'll burn that bridge when we come to it" pretty frequently myself
"not the sharpest knife in the cookie jar"
Sure. It ain't rocket surgery.
"I don't have a hot dog in this bun" - me to the Costco worker.
"Whatever guy, it's like $2 and I know you just swallowed the whole damn thing, but here, sure, I'll give you another one while you hold your bag with 5 pounds of hot pockets and a 3L bottle of Johnny Walker blue. "
-the Costco worker
I'm not a native English speaker, but in my experience "I don't have a horse in this race" seems more common.
I'm a native, and I'd agree. But it's a funny post so, I'll ignore that.
IMO, "dog in this fight" is more common where Ive lived: Appalachia, mid-Atlantic, Midwest. I wouldn't be surprised if it also varies by region, class, etc.
"I'm not the sharpest crayon in the basket. "
"Does the pope shit in the woods?"
"He was like a dildo in a lightbulb store: wasn't the brightest, but never failed to please his teacher."
“I don’t have a sea slug in this drive by.” Conjures images of underwater sea violence and muddies your message.
Grim? Tell spanish people: "I don't have a candle in this burial."
"I don't have a horse in this dog": incoherent, fanciful, drunk
Not my circus, not my monkeys.
I prefer, due to my white trash rural roots:
"That dog won't hunt."
"I don't have a race-fight in this horse-dog" : questionable morals; supernatural or sci-fi undertones; a good chance for double-takes, perhaps even the odd triple-take
I don't have a race-fight in this hot-dog
I don't have a don't in this don't.
This is the true evolution
There's a YouTuber named Memoria Matters who has an inside joke that she's trying to popularize the idiom "too many dogs on the dance floor". I'm pretty sure it doesn't have any particular meaning, however. It came up quite a few times during her Alien: Isolation let's play, however.
Bada-bing!
Dammit, that's too fantastic to NOT be an idiom
Sounds like the name of the next hit single from Reel Big Fish
"I dont have a horse in this fight" makes sense if context is Calvary charge. I dk im drunk.
And a dog in this race for greyhound racing
"My own cow isn't in a ditch"
are the Finns okay
Jack Black fantastic
Depends whether their cow is in a ditch
"I don't have any skin in this game"
Who's betting pieces of skin?
Antonio?
I don't know. I don't have a horse in this dogfight. Still working on his pilot's license.
The older "Dog in the hunt" is a bit less grim.
Unless you're a fox...
"I don't have a monkey in this circus"
i have no beef in this stew
"I don't have a child with this horse."
did someone say synthesis?
I don't have one horse size duck or 100 duck sized horses in this race.
'Corn Maze' by Aesop Rock
"The phone pings from a pillow fort in a corn maze. I don't have a horse in your war games"
https://redirect.invidious.io/watch?v=gqY2CNMsFKw
Wow, that does provoke strong imagery. That's a great looking dog in a great looking race. I hope he wins.
Bever Hopox and Chico Hands could never make that claim.
I don't have a fight in this race
!lemmysilver
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