Subject: Mixed metaphors (Page 21)

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

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Keep your ear to the grindstone.

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She’s not the brightest bulb in the drawer.

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Get in the boat and swim or get out.

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

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We need to have photographic ears.

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Not the brightest bulb in the drawer.

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They’ve come out with all cylinders flying.

British football player & manager
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Why spend astronomical amounts on so-called scientific research to go to another planet?

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He who hesitates hasn't leapt first.

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Is this a whole nother bucket of worms?

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

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

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

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This is the problem we are wringing our hair over.

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We just keep getting the tail end of the stick.

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

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The deputy was willing to cut him a break.

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Life is a box of cherries.

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

professional football player, coach & executive
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As much fun as shooting monkeys in a barrel.

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