Subject: Mixed metaphors (Page 26)

Dirty laundry is coming home to roost.

This thing is snowballing like a house afire!

He went down like a pack of cards.

English football player & commentator

They're in the trenches; they're on the horse and they're riding it.

It's a big nut to swallow.

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

I was so excited my heart about fell out of my stomach!

Microsoft™ is thoroughly dropping the ball on that front.

The early bird gathers no moss.

I'm bone empty.

When sleeping dogs fly.

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

Due process of elimination

They cut into a water main, and it was gushing like a mountain.

That tickled my fancy bone.

A stitch in time saves a poke in the eye with a wet fish.

They will never buy the cow if they can get the eggs for free.

(1971 – ) American actress

Liverpool have come out with all guns flying.

English football player

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.

Those two get on like a horse on fire.

You need more sugar to get your brain circulating.