Subject: Mixed metaphors (Page 28)

Close the barn door after you've led the horse to water.

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Changes that will ignite our engines of growth

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The early worm is being picked first.

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Theres no grass burning under this project.

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You have to shoot where the fish are barking.

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The discovery of the preserved bodies “breathed new life into” Arctic exploration.

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He was watching me like I was a hawk.

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I don't want to step on your thunder.

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That's a huge weight lifted off my head.

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

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

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I've been up and down so many times that I feel as if I'm in a revolving door.

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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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A leopard can't change his stripes.

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Not the brightest bulb in the drawer.

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That was the last hump on the camel.

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The lining's always more silver on the other side of the cloud.

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He's cooking his goose deeper and deeper.

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It's so far removed, it goes right over our heads.

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You've opened this can of worms, now lie in it.

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Don't look a gift horse in the eye.

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