Gazpacho or Gestapo? | What is a Malapropism

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A malapropism is when somebody confuses  two similar sounding words.
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This happened, for example, when US representative Marjorie Taylor Greene used the word gazpacho,  
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a chilled Spanish soup, when she meant to  say gestapo or gestapo,
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the secret police from Nazi Germany.
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Not only do we have the DC jail which is the DC gulag, but now we have Nancy Pelosi's gazpacho police.
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But now we have Nancy Pelosi's gazpacho police. Gazpacho police.
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