Subject: Mixed metaphors (Page 25)

You buttered your bread, now sleep in it!

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We are just scratching the tip of the iceberg.

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

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We'll drive off of that bridge when we get to it.

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Crash courses for driver’s learner permits.

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You can beat a dead horse to water, but you can't make him drink.

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Let him who is without sin cast the first vote.

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From now on I'm watching your every move with a fine-toothed comb.

(1908 – 1997) German-born teacher, academic & humorist
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A salesman told viewers that a keyboard would teach your mind's eye to play by ear.

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I make it my goal to shake every hand that walks in the door.

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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.

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Samson, he takes the jawbone out of the grass and he kills the whole army of the Philippines.

television character, All In the Family (Carroll O’Connor)
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Don’t cast swine before bears.

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A stitch in time is worth a pound of cure.

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The notion that space was empty, there was no stuff there, was something the mind finds it very difficult to get its head round, she said.

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We all act as one heartbeat.

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You got easy regress to safety.

television character, All In the Family (Carroll O’Connor)
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The British are often thought of as pioneers in the field of mountain climbing.

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No skin off my teeth.

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I’m gonna dig in my feet on this one.

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She's skating on thin water.

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