Subject: Mixed metaphors (Page 15)

One good egg in a barrel of rotten apples.

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

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

They're a legend before their time.

Sometimes I feel like I'm swimming uphill against the grain.

We can still hang our heads high.

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

It’s like looking for a needle in a hayride.

Ignorance is golden.

Kill two cats with one bag.

You continue to cloudy the water.

He smokes like a fish.

The future of the church depends on passing the torch to the next generation.

Up a tree without a paddle.

I've got an ace up my nose.

I make it my goal to shake every hand that walks in the door.

This is a race where you can turn a corner, and then there’ll be another team right there breathing down your throat.

He’s going to look them over with a 10-foot pole.

I’m getting up on my feedbox here.

Kill two birds with one egg

No skin off my teeth.

These two guys are cut out of the same mold.