Subject: Mixed metaphors (Page 12)

Let’s start at square zero.

A stitch in time saves a poke in the eye with a wet fish.

You could take that guy with a grain a salt.

You have to walk before you can swim.

Kicking off the hockey season

Button your seat belts.

The monkey is in your court.

I'm tired of walking on kid gloves.

I don’t think they want to bite off that bullet.

I've been up and down like a light switch.

He's a pretty sharp cookie.

It's on the tip of my frontal lobotomy.

Throw the spaghetti onto the ceiling to see what sticks.

Do you follow where I'm coming from?

Zipping one’s lips and throwing away the key

We’ll tackle that bridge when we come to it.

Well, that’s water under the dam.

Idle hands are the mother of invention.

She’s not the toughest cookie on the block.

That will open up a whole new can of issues.

That’ll separate the girls from the sheep.