Subject: Mixed metaphors (Page 2)

You'll get into hot water skating on thin ice!

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Recycling of animal protein in feed proved a recipe for disaster.

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They paired off, one by one.

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This is no time to pull the rug out in the middle of the stream.

(1921 – 1991) U.S. Representative (Massachusetts)
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They counted the votes until the cows had literally gone to sleep.

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Let’s not open that can of worms until we get this one nailed down.

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Fewer and fewer in between

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Put that in your hat and smoke it.

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That guy is a wolf in cheap clothing.

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How would I feel if I were sitting in your shoes?

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This thing is snowballing like a house afire!

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I'd like to be a fish on the wall at that meeting.

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Make like a tree and head out.

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Kill two birds with one egg

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

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As the smoke clears at the devastated detention centre, an investigation reveals how officials ignored the warnings that they were sitting on a powder keg.

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I dozed in and off.

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A leopard can't change his stripes.

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No, I think that was when Abraham Lincoln signed the Declaration of Independence; ya know, fourscore and seven years ago.

television character, All In the Family (Carroll O’Connor)
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He'll argue until the cat turns blue.

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They are crumbling at the seams.

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