Subject: Mixed metaphors (Page 7)

Don't count all your eggs in one basket.

You've opened this can of worms, now lie in it.

I would not trust him with a ten foot pole.

Even in a sewer, the cream rises to the top.

This is a real cat and carrot situation.

English football player, manager & sports commentator

It’s time to grab the bull by the tail and look him in the eye.

He'll argue until the cat turns blue.

Life, liberty, and the pursuit of justice for all

It’s like looking for a needle in a hayride.

I feel like a bridegroom waiting at the altar for a blind date.

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

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

He's cooking his goose deeper and deeper.

It’s better to have half a cake and eat it and enjoy it, than not to have any cake at all.

We’re on the same page length.

He's been burning the midnight oil at both ends.

English sports commentator

We're going to get locked into a corner.

There's a pot of gold at the end of the tunnel.

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

My mind is an open slate.

Get two birds stoned at once.

It’s like pulling the teeth from a hen.