Subject: Mixed metaphors (Page 21)

It’s time to step up to the plate and lay your cards on the table.

Now the shoe is on the other horse!

It ain't rocket surgery.

They’re clearly up the creek without a leg to stand on

She really stuck her neck out on a limb.

The squeaky wheel wins.

I'm going to have to kick it off by hand.

He was between a rock and the deep blue sea.

The future of the church depends on passing the torch to the next generation.

He’s like a duck out of water.

Out of the frying pan, into a handbasket.

Sleeping dogs bark the loudest.

He's been burning the midnight oil at both ends.

English sports commentator

I'm no Monday morning shortstop.

This is an awfully big elephant to eat.

Off the cuff of my head.

What you need is somebody new… there's more than one fish in the woodpile.

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

I wasn't living under my parents' house anymore.

I hate to put you through all this rigor mortis.

I could see you itching at the bit.

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