Subject: Mixed metaphors (Page 11)

If everything is good in the henhouse, you see don’t have to go out for eggs.

television character, All In the Family (Carroll O’Connor)
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I thought it might be a good idea for you to check base with him.

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I’m so hungry I could beat a dead horse.

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We need to get a vacuum cleaner and hose him down.

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He smokes like a fish.

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I think the big guns will come to the boil.

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It's like pulling hen's teeth.

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We certainly don't want to rock the apple cart.

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A heart as big as gold

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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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The bottom line boils down to…

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Government of the people, by the people, and for the pursuit of happiness.

television character, All In the Family (Carroll O’Connor)
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I’ll push some strings for you.

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I want to be sure we don't build ourselves a bag of worms.

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You can lead a horse to water but you can't make it a duck.

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You might think the Channel Islands are a backwater.

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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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Loose lips sink like a rock.

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Out of the frying pan, into a handbasket.

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I can read him like the back of my book.

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He was just a splash in the pan.

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