Subject: Mixed metaphors (Page 27)

I could see you itching at the bit.

Our fans have been branded with the same brush.

English former football player & manager

Let's clear up a loose end.

The [outdoor] sculpture park has opened its doors for the summer.

We need to look at it before the other eyes set foot on it.

Fewer and fewer in between

Let dead dogs sleep.

Out of the frying pan, into a handbasket.

Our organization really frowns down on that.

Beijing will collect and melt snow this winter in a bid to quench the water shortage that has plagued the Chinese capital for years.

We don't need to skirt around the bush.

Unfortunately, we keep kicking ourselves in the foot.

England football player

Stirred the sea into a bowl of boiling cauldron

Lets see who takes the bite on that.

I left the door wide open, and you didn't take the bait.

Walking with your head between your legs.

I'd like to be a fish on the wall at that meeting.

…a seething volcano, nine tenths submerged in the melting pot which one day will explode beneath our feet like a boomerang to engulf us all in a whirlwind of dragon's teeth. It will be too late to close the stable-door.

Microsoft™ is thoroughly dropping the ball on that front.

Listen… do you smell something?

(1952 – ) Canadian comedian, actor, screenwriter & singer

This will help us to know that we are covering all of the gamuts.