Today’s Rhymes With Orange, with a phrasal overlap portmanteau:
Get with the snowmasculinity program, dude!
(Links to Ben Zimmer’s writing on the slang idiom man up here. Notes on the gay porn flick Man Up here.)
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Did he snowman up? He probably just thawed about it.
[…] Then there’s the advertising slogan Man Up — another dose of masculinity. Some background: links to Ben Zimmer on the expression here, notes on the porn flick Man Up here, and a cartoon with the phrasal overlap portmanteau snowman up here. […]
February 1, 2012 at 4:55 am |
Did he snowman up? He probably just thawed about it.
June 3, 2012 at 8:31 am |
[…] Then there’s the advertising slogan Man Up — another dose of masculinity. Some background: links to Ben Zimmer on the expression here, notes on the porn flick Man Up here, and a cartoon with the phrasal overlap portmanteau snowman up here. […]