Subject: Mixed metaphors (Page 5)

Moss never grows on a fish out of water.

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The notion that space was empty, there was no stuff there, was something the mind finds it very difficult to get its head round, she said.

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A carpenter was the low rung on a totem pole.

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Wood fires help fuel climate change.

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Once again, the Achilles' heel has reared its ugly head.

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This is all the fault of that Helen Curly Steinway.

television character, All In the Family (Carroll O’Connor)
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You don't have to beat it with a dead horse.

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She grabbed the bull by the horns, and ran with it.

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Time rolled up like a scroll, while the plague nibbled at the edges of their years.

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He was watching me like I was a hawk.

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I think the big guns will come to the boil.

English football player & manager
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I wasn't living under my parents' house anymore.

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

television character, All In the Family (Carroll O’Connor)
Mixed metaphors TV/Movie Quotes

Too many skeletons in her background

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Due process of elimination

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It's like pulling hen's teeth.

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The world is your lobster.

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Take a flying hike.

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They’re clearly up the creek without a leg to stand on

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Seeing a buzzard catch a rare phalarope is in bird-watching terms, like killing two birds with one stone.

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They need to wake up and smell the music.

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