Subject: Mixed metaphors (Page 24)

Make like a tree and head out.

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If you let that sort of thing go on, your bread and butter will be cut right out from under your feet.

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Off the cuff of my head.

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That snake in the grass is barking up the wrong tree.

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We are tipping the iceberg.

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Unfortunately, we keep kicking ourselves in the foot.

England football player
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The deputy was willing to cut him a break.

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You buttered your bread, now sleep in it!

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It’s better to have half a cake and eat it and enjoy it, than not to have any cake at all.

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… her last day as an eagle… flying off to greener pastures…

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

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Raining like a sieve

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Windy as a hornet

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Biting the hand that rocks the cradle

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Smoking like a sieve

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I smell a rat… but I'll nip him in the bud.

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I'm sweating like a stuck pig.

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

(1951 – ) American conservative radio talk-show host
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You continue to cloudy the water.

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You hit the nail on the dot.

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She's skating on thin water.

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