Subject: Mixed metaphors (Page 10)

That's using your head for something besides a footstool.

This is the piece of the puzzle that allows you to paint in the rest of the pie.

It looks like the cows have come home to roost.

He was between a rock and the deep blue sea.

People tell me one thing one day and out the other.

The menu was frozen in the amber of 1973.

Look what the cat dragged out of the bag.

He’s like a duck out of water.

She flew off the deep end.

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

Nothing out of the unusual

It's so far removed, it goes right over our heads.

You can’t have your hill and die on it too.

I don’t think we should jump at straws here.

That's a huge weight lifted off my head.

The squeaky wheel wins.

There wasn’t a dry tear in the place.

I would not trust him with a ten foot pole.

You've buttered your bread, now lie in it.

We all act as one heartbeat.

A salesman told viewers that a keyboard would teach your mind's eye to play by ear.