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I had a girlfriend like that. It turned out that her father used mix metaphors for comic effect but she didn't realise and thought it was the correct metaphor. When she said "everyone says it like that" what she meant was "my family says it like that"
I knew of the malaphor only because my wife does it all the time, but then insists her phrase is the way people always say it. When you are up a creek, you are without a paddle. A bird in the hand catches bees with honey. Does the pope crap in the woods?