Subject: Mixed metaphors (Page 6)

Never put all your eggs in one omelet.

We are tipping the iceberg.

It's all Greek to a blind horse.

Don't take any wooden Indians.

You have to dance to a different drum.

Life is a box of cherries.

Government of the people, by the people, and for the pursuit of happiness.

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

Unfortunately, we keep kicking ourselves in the foot.

England football player

Which way are the tea leaves blowing?

I’m getting up on my feedbox here.

Some people sail through life on a bed of roses like a knife slicing through butter.

I left the door wide open, and you didn't take the bait.

He's trying to gain a foothold in the public eye.

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

If everything is good in the henhouse, you see don’t have to go out for eggs.

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

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

No, I think that was when Abraham Lincoln signed the Declaration of Independence; ya know, fourscore and seven years ago.

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

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

That's the whole kettle of fish in a nutshell.

I make it my goal to shake every hand that walks in the door.

The greatest thing since sliced beer.