Subject: Mixed metaphors (Page 3)

Sleeping dogs bark the loudest.

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I've got an ace up my nose.

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Keep your ear to the grindstone.

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When you put your best foot forward, it rubs off on someone.

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Well, that’s water under the dam.

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That was the nail that broke the coffin’s back.

college basketball coach
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The early bird gets the wormy apple.

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You can’t go in there cold turkey with egg on your face.

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They laughed at Joan of Arc, but she went right ahead and built it.

(1895 – 1964) comedian (wife & partner of George Burns)
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They will never buy the cow if they can get the eggs for free.

(1971 – ) American actress
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That snake in the grass is barking up the wrong tree.

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I can see the light at the end of the rainbow.

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.. drawing the eye… like a magnet

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…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.

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That will open up a whole new can of issues.

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Don't burn your bridges till you come to them.

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Running around like a chicken with its legs cut off

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Sayin’ grace – it’s just thankin’ Mother Nature, whose first name just happens to be Grace.

television character, All In the Family (Carroll O’Connor)
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It's on the tip of my frontal lobotomy.

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We will burn that horse when we get there.

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A carpenter was the low rung on a totem pole.

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