Subject: Mixed metaphors (Page 20)

I ate enough to float a battleship!

The dice are stacked against them.

Irish football player & manager

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

The gelling period has just started to knit.

England football player

Adam wasn’t always the brightest tool.

I'm tired of being a pawn in your game of checkers!

The history of the aquatics center shows… that the games’ organizers seem to be willing to spend money like water.

Sleeping dogs bark the loudest.

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

I’m getting up on my feedbox here.

It would bring the public school system crumbling to its knees.

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)

Smoking like a sieve

He is not the sharpest cookie in the jar.

Let’s split the baby with the bathwater.

Loose lips sink like a rock.

The beer flowed like wine.

Right, and the check is in my mouth.

(1971 – ) American actress

All's well that ends.

I can’t make these split-minute decisions.

That's using your head for something besides a footstool.

I thought it might be a good idea for you to check base with him.