Subject: Mixed metaphors (Page 23)

The squeeky wheel gets the worm.

It would bring the public school system crumbling to its knees.

Like the Good Book says, let him who is without sin… be the rollin’ stone.

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

Which way are the tea leaves blowing?

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

Hold the Farm!

You have to shoot where the fish are barking.

A man's home is his castle – let him clean it.

If everything is good in the henhouse, you see don’t have to go out for eggs.

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

I'm tired of being a pawn in your game of checkers!

Even in a sewer, the cream rises to the top.

Beware my friend… you are skating on hot water.

We could stand here and talk until the cows turn blue.

Is that going to throw a wrinkle?

We just keep getting the tail end of the stick.

We’ll do this individually as a group.

Don’t bite the hand that looks dirty.

Biting the hand that rocks the cradle

Is this a whole nother bucket of worms?

Once the horse is out of the barn, you can't put him back again.

I've been getting the corpse ahead of the hearse most of my life.