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noun • a combination of two or more metaphors that together produce a ridiculous effect | ||||||||
| 52% | 10 | Characteristic of linguistic solecism | ||||||
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noun • a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention • inadvertent incorrectness • a misconception resulting from incorrect information • (baseball) a failure of a defensive player to make an out when normal play would have sufficed • departure from what is ethically acceptable • (computer science) the occurrence of an incorrect result produced by a computer • part of a statement that is not correct | ||||||||
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MIXEDMETAPHOR which was last seen in the The Guardian Cryptic crossword.
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MIXEDMETAPHOR
Updated: October 14, 2023
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