Subject: Mixed metaphors (Page 21)

Unless somebody can pull a miracle out of the fire, they are cruising into the semi-final.

Keep your ear to the grindstone.

She’s not the brightest bulb in the drawer.

Get in the boat and swim or get out.

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

We need to have photographic ears.

Not the brightest bulb in the drawer.

They’ve come out with all cylinders flying.

British football player & manager

Why spend astronomical amounts on so-called scientific research to go to another planet?

He who hesitates hasn't leapt first.

Is this a whole nother bucket of worms?

I feel like a bridegroom waiting at the altar for a blind date.

99 times out of ten, that's what you'll get.

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

This is the problem we are wringing our hair over.

We just keep getting the tail end of the stick.

It's six, or one and a half dozen of the other.

The deputy was willing to cut him a break.

Life is a box of cherries.

Manchester United are looking to Frank Stapleton to pull some magic out of the fire.

professional football player, coach & executive

As much fun as shooting monkeys in a barrel.