Subject: Mixed metaphors (Page 7)

Don't burn your bridges till you come to them.

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I don’t think we should jump at straws here.

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He ran a cottage industry from his garden shed.

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It’s time to step up to the plate and lay your cards on the table.

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

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We're robbing Peter to pay the piper.

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It looks like the cows have come home to roost.

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The promise of the world’s first low-carbon Olympic flame has gone up in smoke.

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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)
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We all act as one heartbeat.

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There's more that one way to skin the cat out of the bag.

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Those two get on like a horse on fire.

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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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I think we got on like a house gathering no moss.

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

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.. drawing the eye… like a magnet

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Off the cuff of my head.

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He'll argue until the cat turns blue.

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[a rock group’s] authenticity strikes a chord with fans.

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I'm so busy, I don't know whether I'm coming or not.

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He came out of it smelling like a bandit.

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