Subject: Mixed metaphors (Page 25)

You buttered your bread, now sleep in it!

We are just scratching the tip of the iceberg.

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

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

Crash courses for driver’s learner permits.

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

Let him who is without sin cast the first vote.

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

(1908 – 1997) German-born teacher, academic & humorist

A salesman told viewers that a keyboard would teach your mind's eye to play by ear.

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

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

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)

Don’t cast swine before bears.

A stitch in time is worth a pound of cure.

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.

We all act as one heartbeat.

You got easy regress to safety.

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

The British are often thought of as pioneers in the field of mountain climbing.

No skin off my teeth.

I’m gonna dig in my feet on this one.

She's skating on thin water.