mixed metaphor of the week?

[Cohen, Gerald Leonard]

In a related vein, in the 1970's a speaker at a linguistics conference reported the following speech error: "That's a horse of a different race."
 
Gerald Cohen

On 1/2/07, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu> wrote:
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> from an medical support group e-mail list:
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> "That's a horse of a very different feather"
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> LH
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