Subject: Mixed metaphors (Page 12)

They’ve tasted the other side of the coin on so many occasions.

Irish football player & broadcaster
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I'm not trying to poke holes at anybody.

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That will open up a whole new can of issues.

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He’s still green behind the ears.

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My mind is an open slate.

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It's a walk in the cake.

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Chicken guarding the hen house

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Don't look a gift horse in the eye.

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We'll mend that fence when we get to it.

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They can crumble as easily as ice cream in this heat.

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Take a flying hike.

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The shit’s gonna hit the stick.

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We need to look the 800-pound gorilla in the mouth

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Sometimes they bite the farm.

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Why spend astronomical amounts on so-called scientific research to go to another planet?

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That was the straw that twisted the camel's neck.

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Samson, he takes the jawbone out of the grass and he kills the whole army of the Philippines.

television character, All In the Family (Carroll O’Connor)
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Hit the wall running…

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If you let that sort of thing go on, your bread and butter will be cut right out from under your feet.

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A journey of a thousand miles keeps the doctor away.

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This is all the fault of that Helen Curly Steinway.

television character, All In the Family (Carroll O’Connor)
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