Subject: Mixed metaphors (Page 16)

Windy as a hornet

Where do you draw the line? … Everything has to have been drawn originally.

There are things that will really sink home with you.

He’s still green behind the ears.

It's like locking the barn door after the nuts have bolted.

He ran a cottage industry from his garden shed.

Let's bury this dead horse.

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

We need to get a vacuum cleaner and hose him down.

It sent goosebumps up my spine.

The story of Noah and the whale.

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

Out of the frying pan, into a handbasket.

Bury it under the carpet

One good egg in a barrel of rotten apples.

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

Up a tree without a paddle

Money roots out all evil.

They can crumble as easily as ice cream in this heat.

We want to brand the Renaissance name to the eyeballs in the chairs.

I thought it might be a good idea for you to check base with him.

Surfing the Infobahn [information superhighway]

Smoking like a sieve