Subject: Mixed metaphors (Page 10)

What you need is somebody new… there's more than one fish in the woodpile.

television character, All In the Family (Carroll O’Connor)
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Our organization really frowns down on that.

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Delivering her baby at home is the birthright of every woman.

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She’s not the brightest bulb in the drawer.

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It was so cold last night I had to throw another blanket on the fire.

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Moss never grows on a fish out of water.

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Walking with your head between your legs.

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He went down like a pack of cards.

English football player & commentator
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A carpenter was the low rung on a totem pole.

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I can't answer that – it's out of my water.

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I knew enough to realize that the alligators were in the swamp and that it was time to circle the wagons.

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We are tipping the iceberg.

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Don’t cast swine before bears.

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Not without a grain of sugar

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Keep a stiff upper chin.

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He reads like a fish.

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It's like pushing a rock upstream.

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It’s better to have half a cake and eat it and enjoy it, than not to have any cake at all.

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I think the big guns will come to the boil.

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He was going to line up his ducks in a basket.

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Living from hand to mouth like the birds of the air

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