Subject: Mixed metaphors (Page 11)

I guess the foot’s on the other hand now!

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He came out of it smelling like a bandit.

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…a seething volcano, nine tenths submerged in the melting pot which one day will explode beneath our feet like a boomerang to engulf us all in a whirlwind of dragon's teeth. It will be too late to close the stable-door.

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She’s not the toughest cookie on the block.

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You’re fighting upstream.

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Long road to hoe.

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I'm hungry enough to eat cats and dogs.

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He smokes like a fish.

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He swept the rug under the carpet.

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We can still hang our heads high.

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He’s like a duck out of water.

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It dawned across my head.

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Nail our fingers to the mast

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She knocked the socks off the ball.

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He’s a man without an island.

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They don't know yet whether that played a factor in the accident.

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Never judge a book by its title.

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They’ve taken the horns by the scruff of the neck.

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

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They paired off, one by one.

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I dozed in and off.

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