Via One Foot Tsunami, a great tale of workplace malapropisms:
While we don’t have a full picture of everything on the list, several linguistic pause moments published in the Wall Street Journal stick out to me, like the hilariously redundant “I’m not trying to beat a dead horse to death,” the definitely not food safety-approved “Too many cooks in the soup,” and the unintentionally macabre “He’s going to be so happy he’ll be like a canary in a coal mine!” That last one reportedly came courtesy of marketing manager Mike Murphy, leader of the board.
I’m a keen observer of this kind of verbal misuse, but not in a judgmental way. I like the playful aspect of Ford’s manager here.