Subject: Mixed metaphors (Page 15)

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

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The early bird gets the wormy apple.

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

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Changes that will ignite our engines of growth

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Don't count your chickens until you see the whites of their eyes.

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It's as American as killing two birds with one apple pie.

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I’m just talking out loud.

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Sleeping dogs bark the loudest.

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He’s still green behind the ears.

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

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I'm bone empty.

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No, I think that was when Abraham Lincoln signed the Declaration of Independence; ya know, fourscore and seven years ago.

television character, All In the Family (Carroll O’Connor)
Mixed metaphors TV/Movie Quotes

If they do that, they might as well take the open door policy and throw it right out the window!

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A stitch in time is worth a pound of cure.

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The rain was coming down in droves!

Mixed metaphors Science/Weather

Close the barn door after you've led the horse to water.

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Streams of pilgrims, old and young… flood towards the river to worship.

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Remember, Rome wasn’t burned an a day.

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

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He was between a rock and the deep blue sea.

Misspokements Mixed metaphors

It was time to get my act in gear.

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