Subject: Mixed metaphors (Page 4)

I guess the foot’s on the other hand now!

We can still hang our heads high.

I wouldn’t eat that with a ten-foot pole.

He reads like a fish.

Run your kite up the flagpole

Sometimes I feel like I'm swimming uphill against the grain.

He was bothered mentally mainly by the physical plague.

I can't answer that – it's out of my water.

Just then, the fickle finger of fate reared its ugly head.

Get the kinks rolling

The bad penny ain’t pickin’ up no more rollin’ moss.

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

Right, and the check is in my mouth.

(1971 – ) American actress

He's between a rock and the deep blue sea.

Biting the hand that rocks the cradle

He was going to line up his ducks in a basket.

Is a bear Catholic?

(1971 – ) American actress

Rattle some feathers.

We just keep getting the tail end of the stick.

Don’t bite the hand that looks dirty.

You painted us into a corner, then you threw away the key.

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

I can read him like the back of my book.