Subject: Mixed metaphors (Page 13)

Makes the hair stand up on the edge of my seat

Those two get on like a horse on fire.

Our methodology isn't cast in stone.

They try to balance a fine line.

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

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

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

He’s not the sharpest marble in the drawer.

The gelling period has just started to knit.

England football player

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

English sports commentator

A leopard can't change his stripes.

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

We can still hang our heads high.

As we consider the road that unfolds before us.

What goes around, stays in Vegas.