I first encountered the phrase on TWIT Sunday. "Last week, the phrase 'You can't lick a badger twice' unexpectedly went viral on social media. The nonsense sentence - which was likely never uttered by a human before last week - had become the poster child for the newly discovered way Google search's AI Overviews makes up plausible-sounding explanations for made-up idioms." Ironically, the phrase 'You can't lick a badger twice' now has a meaning - but it's meta-metaphorical, meaning something like (to paraphrase), "garbage in, a workable interpretation of garbage out". Via Doug Belshaw.
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