Subject: Mixed metaphors (Page 21)

Our fans have been branded with the same brush.

English former football player & manager

Listen… do you smell something?

(1952 – ) Canadian comedian, actor, screenwriter & singer

I looked to see what I could hear.

We should continue to ride the horse that brings in the gravy.

A loose tongue spoils the broth.

Some people sail through life on a bed of roses like a knife slicing through butter.

This is a race where you can turn a corner, and then there’ll be another team right there breathing down your throat.

He's really low dog on the totem pole.

I'm shooting from the seat of my pants.

It's so far removed, it goes right over our heads.

We need to look the 800-pound gorilla in the mouth

The horses of Australia’s snowy mountains once served to harness the identity of a nation emerging from colonial rule.

The squeaky wheel wins.

I have been torn betwixt and between the devil and the deep blue sea.

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

You've opened this can of worms, now lie in it.

I wouldn’t eat that with a ten-foot pole.

You hit the nail on the dot.

If you let the cat out of the bag, how can you let sleeping dogs lie?

We're still getting our feet wet on getting rolling here.

Don't mind me, I'm just a mouse on the wall.