Subject: Mixed metaphors (Page 16)

Get the kinks rolling

What you need is somebody new… there's more than one fish in the woodpile.

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

Our organization really frowns down on that.

You’re fighting upstream.

Get in the boat and swim or get out.

I turned a blind eye to all that bad stuff I was hearing.

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

The monkey is in your court.

War is hell on wheels.

People will blow smoke and mirrors at you.

Better not open that Panacea's box.

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

People who wear glass slippers shouldn't kick stones.

People are dying like hotcakes.

In about six months I'll be knocking on your shoulder.

He's between a rock and the deep blue sea.

Married at the hip

It looks like the cows have come home to roost.

When life throws you curve balls, make lemonade.

He can cry on a dime.

The squeeky wheel gets the worm.