Subject: Mixed metaphors (Page 24)

… forced to wade through a mountain of red tape

I didn't have two minutes to rub together.

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

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

There's light at the end of this rainbow.

You’re fighting upstream.

You could take that guy with a grain a salt.

We’ll tackle that bridge when we come to it.

We'll mend that fence when we get to it.

Someone's going to hang from the yardstick for this.

The squeeky wheel gets the worm.

With Lenny in, Carl will fold like a domino!

We threw our dice into the ring and turned up trumps.

He went down like a pack of cards.

English football player & commentator

If your cousin Maude says one wrong word to me, we’re gonna be leaving before the bride takes the shower.

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

The ship of state has a difficult road ahead.

That will round out the triangle.

You're pulling my leg over my eyes.

A rolling stone kills no birds.

I’m getting up on my feedbox here.

We are treading on thin water.

I guess the foot’s on the other hand now!