Subject: Mixed metaphors (Page 15)

I guess the foot’s on the other hand now!

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The bad penny ain’t pickin’ up no more rollin’ moss.

television character, All In the Family (Carroll O’Connor)
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It looks like the cows have come home to roost.

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Sometimes they bite the farm.

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I could hear the handwriting on the wall.

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The police are not here to create disorder, they’re here to preserve disorder.

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Put that in your hat and smoke it.

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The beer flowed like wine.

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Someone's going to hang from the yardstick for this.

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Make like a tree and head out.

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If you teach a snake to fish, you can lead it to water but it won't drink..

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I can see the light at the end of the rainbow.

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A duck on a hot tin roof.

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It’s all water under the hatchet.

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You might think the Channel Islands are a backwater.

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It certainly wipes the floor with your usual commemorative tea towels.

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The sacred cows have come home to roost with a vengeance.

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He swept the rug under the carpet.

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She really stuck her neck out on a limb.

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Sayin’ grace – it’s just thankin’ Mother Nature, whose first name just happens to be Grace.

television character, All In the Family (Carroll O’Connor)
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There's light at the end of this rainbow.

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