Subject: Mixed metaphors (Page 16)

I have been torn betwixt and between the devil and the deep blue sea.

She’s come out of this one looking like a rose.

Makes the hair stand up on the edge of my seat

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

That tickled my fancy bone.

Button your seat belts.

You can beat a dead horse to water, but you can't make him drink.

Liverpool have come out with all guns flying.

English football player

It's so far removed, it goes right over our heads.

That's the nail that broke the coffin's back.

I want to see you go to town like a house of fire.

You can’t change the spots on an old dog.

It's so far removed, it goes right over our heads.

I'd like to be a fish on the wall at that meeting.

Adam wasn’t always the brightest tool.

You buttered your bread, now sleep in it!

You have to take the bad with the worse.

You can put the cart before the horse, but you can't make him drink.

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

Up the creek in a boat with a hole.

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

That’s a kettle of fish of a different color.