Like “does the Pope shit in the woods?” or “that train has sailed?”

Also, what good examples can you think of?

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    6 hours ago

    So, lots of examples, but not much on your question about terminology. In looking around a bit, I couldn’t find a single specific term for a malapropism that “sticks,” but you could fairly describe it as a form semantic drift driven by catachresis, thought the latter seems more common in literary criticism or philosophy than in linguistics.