Subject: Mixed metaphors (Page 18)

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Mixed metaphors

I wouldn’t be caught dead there with a ten-foot pole.

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To the max degree

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He'll argue until the cat turns blue.

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Well, that’s water under the dam.

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I’ll push some strings for you.

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We all have our own legs to pull.

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He reads like a fish.

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He was just a splash in the pan.

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Adam wasn’t always the brightest tool.

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It’s better to have half a cake and eat it and enjoy it, than not to have any cake at all.

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I’ll get it by hook or ladder.

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I’d like to be sitting in his shoes.

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A journey of a thousand miles keeps the doctor away.

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You painted us into a corner, then you threw away the key.

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

He shot out of here like a bat out of a belfry.

(1905 – 1974) radio comedian
Mixed metaphors Situations

We need to sit down and walk through some things.

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Right between the nose

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When sleeping dogs fly.

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Let's call the kettle what it is!

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I don't want to hold an open manhole over your head.

Mixed metaphors