Subject: Mixed metaphors (Page 25)

He'll argue until the cat turns blue.

This snowball is coming down the mountain with a full head of steam.

Don’t bite the hand that looks dirty.

I’d like to be sitting in his shoes.

We better not, ya know, kill our chickens before they cross the road.

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

We'll rewind the calendar.

If you spill the beans, then you'll open a can of worms.

I can't answer that – it's out of my water.

The horses of Australia’s snowy mountains once served to harness the identity of a nation emerging from colonial rule.

Right, and the check is in my mouth.

(1971 – ) American actress

He’s going to look them over with a 10-foot pole.

It's time to swallow the bullet.

Some people sail through life on a bed of roses like a knife slicing through butter.

Our methodology isn't cast in stone.

I can read him like an open can of worms.

We’re not afraid of challenges. It’s like we always say: if you want to go out in the rain, be prepared to get burned.

People will blow smoke and mirrors at you.

That was a dialog we started down.

It could turn on a dime like a stallion.

There's a pot of gold at the end of the tunnel.

We need to have photographic ears.