Subject: Mixed metaphors (Page 21)

I think we got on like a house gathering no moss.

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Beware my friend… you are skating on hot water.

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If you try to eat this elephant all in one bite, you’re going to have a hell of an indigestion.

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Now that the ball is in our court, let's go for the touchdown.

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

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Don't do the crime if you can't get out the kitchen.

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The rain is coming down like gangbusters!

Mixed metaphors Science/Weather

I'd like to be a fish on the wall at that meeting.

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

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He went down like a pack of cards.

English football player & commentator
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Let’s split the baby with the bathwater.

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

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We better not, ya know, kill our chickens before they cross the road.

television character, All In the Family (Carroll O’Connor)
Mixed metaphors TV/Movie Quotes

We could be putting the hammer in Luton's coffin.

England football player
Colemanballs Mixed metaphors

This is the piece of the puzzle that allows you to paint in the rest of the pie.

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The early bird gets the wormy apple.

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The greatest thing since sliced beer.

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Changes that will ignite our engines of growth

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Seeing a buzzard catch a rare phalarope is in bird-watching terms, like killing two birds with one stone.

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

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Let dead dogs sleep.

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