Subject: Mixed metaphors (Page 4)

I want to see you go to town like a house of fire.

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Throw the spaghetti onto the ceiling to see what sticks.

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I’ll push some strings for you.

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Sleeping dogs bark the loudest.

television character, All In the Family (Carroll O’Connor)
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Crash courses for driver’s learner permits.

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We just keep getting the tail end of the stick.

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… forced to wade through a mountain of red tape

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This is the piece of the puzzle that allows you to paint in the rest of the pie.

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Now I'm going to tell you something that'll really throw a kink in the wrench.

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All's well that ends.

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Raining like a sieve

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She really stuck her neck out on a limb.

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Don’t eat with your mouth full!

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Grasping at the straw that broke the camel's back

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He wanted to get out from under his father's coat strings.

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He who hesitates hasn't leapt first.

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Taking the bull with both feet

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It's like pushing a rock upstream.

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A stitch in time saves a poke in the eye with a wet fish.

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Tackle that hurdle

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I’m between a rock and the frying pan.

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