Subject: Mixed metaphors (Page 26)

Zipping one’s lips and throwing away the key

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The gelling period has just started to knit.

England football player
Colemanballs Mixed metaphors

If you try to eat this elephant all in one bite, you’re going to have a hell of an indigestion.

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I think we got on like a house gathering no moss.

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Never put all your eggs in one omelet.

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Don't let the grass grow under a rolling stone.

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I wouldn’t be caught dead there with a ten-foot pole.

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Can’t you read the handwriting in the wind?

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He knew how to butter his nest.

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The light at the end of the tunnel is only muzzle flash.

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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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Don’t cast swine before bears.

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Talk about rubbing salt in the fire!

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Rattle some feathers.

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

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He’s not the one with his ass in a noose.

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It used to be sheep [waking me in the morning] and that's bad enough, but cows are a whole different kettle of fish.

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The bad penny ain’t pickin’ up no more rollin’ moss.

television character, All In the Family (Carroll O’Connor)
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They’re clearly up the creek without a leg to stand on

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Like the old adverb you can lead a gift horse to the water but ya can't look in his mouth.

television character, All In the Family (Carroll O’Connor)
Mixed metaphors TV/Movie Quotes

The guy just couldn’t cut the custard.

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