Subject: Mixed metaphors (Page 13)

Makes the hair stand up on the edge of my seat

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Those two get on like a horse on fire.

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Our methodology isn't cast in stone.

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They try to balance a fine line.

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The history of the aquatics center shows… that the games’ organizers seem to be willing to spend money like water.

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The lining's always more silver on the other side of the cloud.

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While we are ingesting the author's valuable insights, we may also be swallowing his blind spots.

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He’s not the sharpest marble in the drawer.

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The gelling period has just started to knit.

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

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If you don't wear your seat belt, you're just a missile waiting to happen.

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The promise of the world’s first low-carbon Olympic flame has gone up in smoke.

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

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We need to look at it before the other eyes set foot on it.

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From now on, I’m watching everything you do with a fine-tuned comb.

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He's been burning the midnight oil at both ends.

English sports commentator
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A leopard can't change his stripes.

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If he were alive today, he’d be turning over in his grave.

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We can still hang our heads high.

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As we consider the road that unfolds before us.

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What goes around, stays in Vegas.

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