Subject: Mixed metaphors (Page 4)

We will burn that horse when we get there.

Unless somebody can pull a miracle out of the fire, they are cruising into the semi-final.

It's like a wizard in sheep's clothing.

He took to it like a fish out of water.

Don't put all your chickens in one basket.

Grasping at the straw that broke the camel's back

Up a tree without a paddle

…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.

She has bigger dogs to fry.

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

Chicken guarding the hen house

We better not, ya know, kill our chickens before they cross the road.

television character, All In the Family (Carroll O’Connor)

The sacred cows have come home to roost with a vengeance.

Does the Pope shit in the woods?

It sent goosebumps up my spine.

People are dying like hotcakes.

Get the kinks rolling

Get two birds stoned at once.

I’m getting up on my feedbox here.

Better not open that Panacea's box.

It's like pulling hen's teeth.