Subject: Mixed metaphors (Page 23)

We all have our own legs to pull.

That’ll separate the girls from the sheep.

They’ve tasted the other side of the coin on so many occasions.

Irish football player & broadcaster

Kill two birds with one egg

Well, thats as clear as a bull in a china shop.

You have to take the bad with the worse.

Look what the cat dragged out of the bag.

Keep your nose up!

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

I knew enough to realize that the alligators were in the swamp and that it was time to circle the wagons.

Make like a tree and head out.

I’d like to be sitting in his shoes.

Let's make sure we're all talking off the same sheet of music.

You buttered your bread; now you'll have to sleep in it.

I want to be sure we don't build ourselves a bag of worms.

You're like a dog barking down the wrong well.

It's a big nut to swallow.

He wanted to get out from under his father's coat strings.

It's as plain as the egg on your face.

That tickled my fancy bone.

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