Malformed Idioms

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You're a malformed idiom

A teacher once said to me, "I didn't fall off a Christmas tree yesterday!"

This probably doesn't count, but I'm annoyed by the recent trend of saying, "whole nother thing" instead of "whole other thing". How did that start? What's it supposed to even mean? Short for another? Makes no sense. I guess it's combining two ways of saying it's something different, and it makes me so angry I have to karate chop a brick each time I hear it.

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She says: "The writing's on the blackboard"    ....................................  (maybe she never really got over Mr Squiggle! )
She says: "You have to think outside the circle"  ...................................  Jesus Christ. I give up!
And lastly she always says: "As a constellation", you will still receive something, etc ........... Yep! My dear wife is now a fucking Astrophysicist!

Not sure what's wrong with the first one.

As to the second one, I like to change up what's "common" to be weird and unique.

For the third, perhaps she means consolation.

The first one's meant to be, "The writing's on the wall", I believe.

"...an idiomatic expression that suggests a portent of doom or misfortune, based on the story of Belshazzar's feast in the book of Daniel." [Wikipedia]