Subject: Mixed metaphors (Page 26)

You could take that guy with a grain a salt.

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Running around like children with their heads cut off

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Signori has all the tricks up his book.

England football player
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Let’s split the baby with the bathwater.

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I shot the wind out of his saddle.

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Clearly we’ve opened a Pandora’s box of worms here.

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Sleeping dogs bark the loudest.

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… forced to wade through a mountain of red tape

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He can cry on a dime.

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Our methodology isn't cast in stone.

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It’s like watching wallpaper dry.

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We raised it to new depths.

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Right there on the tip of my brain

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… the Holy Land of Israel – a mecca for tourists.

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I turned a blind eye to all that bad stuff I was hearing.

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This is no time to pull the rug out in the middle of the stream.

(1921 – 1991) U.S. Representative (Massachusetts)
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The greatest thing since sliced beer.

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If you let that sort of thing go on, your bread and butter will be cut right out from under your feet.

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As the smoke clears at the devastated detention centre, an investigation reveals how officials ignored the warnings that they were sitting on a powder keg.

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You have to dance to a different drum.

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It's time to grab the bull by the tail and look it in the eye.

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