Subject: Mixed metaphors (Page 19)

You've put your finger right on the nail.

Just then, the fickle finger of fate reared its ugly head.

Chicken guarding the hen house

The greatest thing since sliced beer.

Well, that’s water under the dam.

I should move to the other side of the building, so I can see the sunset come up every morning.

Right, and the check is in my mouth.

(1971 – ) American actress

I was the mother hen to all these little ducks.

It's on the tip of my frontal lobotomy.

Let him who is without sin cast the first vote.

It's all Greek to a blind horse.

These felled trees are the beavers’ handiwork!

They’ve taken the horns by the scruff of the neck.

English football player & analyst

Tackle that hurdle

I'm sweating like a stuck pig.

Like the old adverb you can lead a gift horse to the water but ya can't look in his mouth.

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

We’re not afraid of challenges. It’s like we always say: if you want to go out in the rain, be prepared to get burned.

It'll be a cold day in January when that happens!

The whole can of wax

Too long they’ve been gettin’ the short end of the totem pole.

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

They try to balance a fine line.