Subject: Mixed metaphors (Page 19)

Roy Keane didn’t go through the book with a fine toothbrush.

English football player & analyst
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We need to have photographic ears.

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I think we got on like a house gathering no moss.

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Once the horse is out of the barn, you can't put him back again.

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He was just a splash in the pan.

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As proud as pea soup.

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This is the problem we are wringing our hair over.

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We are tipping the iceberg.

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It's like pushing a rock upstream.

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We threw our dice into the ring and turned up trumps.

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It's time to swallow the bullet.

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Take the ball by the horns and run with it.

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I hate to put you through all this rigor mortis.

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He’s still green behind the ears.

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She knocked the socks off the ball.

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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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It dawned across my head.

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The lining's always more silver on the other side of the cloud.

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Up the creek in a boat with a hole.

television character, All In the Family (Carroll O’Connor)
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The gelling period has just started to knit.

England football player
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Don't do the crime if you can't get out the kitchen.

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