Subject: Mixed metaphors (Page 21)

From now on, I’m watching everything you do with a fine-tuned comb.

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Every silver lining has a cloud around it.

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Makes the hair stand up on the edge of my seat

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It's as plain as the egg on your face.

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Beyond the question of a doubt

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The police are not here to create disorder, they’re here to preserve disorder.

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I’d like to be sitting in his shoes.

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

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I turned a blind eye to all that bad stuff I was hearing.

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You got easy regress to safety.

television character, All In the Family (Carroll O’Connor)
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This is a race where you can turn a corner, and then there’ll be another team right there breathing down your throat.

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This will help us to know that we are covering all of the gamuts.

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Let's clear up a loose end.

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The discovery of the preserved bodies “breathed new life into” Arctic exploration.

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A rolling stone kills no birds.

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If you don't wear your seat belt, you're just a missile waiting to happen.

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They're a legend before their time.

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She was drop down gorgeous.

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It slid away from his left boot which was poised with the trigger cocked.

British sports commentator
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I left the door wide open, and you didn't take the bait.

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This is all the fault of that Helen Curly Steinway.

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