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:-).
“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
“Shit or get out of the kitchen” is my current favorite malaphor.
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.
“I don’t have a sea slug in this drive by.” Conjures images of underwater sea violence and muddies your message.
"I’m not the sharpest crayon in the basket. "
“Does the pope shit in the woods?”
Grim? Tell spanish people: “I don’t have a candle in this burial.”
are the Finns okay
Depends whether their cow is in a ditch
that is not my beer
“I don’t have a monkey in this circus”
i have no beef in this stew
“I don’t have any skin in this game”
Who’s betting pieces of skin?
I don’t know. I don’t have a horse in this dogfight. Still working on his pilot’s license.
My two favorite malaphors:
- It’s not rocket surgery.
- We will burn that bridge when we get to it.
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!
I use those both regularly. And people seem totally unable to tell whether I am doing it on purpose.
The older “Dog in the hunt” is a bit less grim.
Unless you’re a fox…
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.
Dammit, that’s too fantastic to NOT be an idiom
Sounds like the name of the next hit single from Reel Big Fish
