Subject: Mixed metaphors (Page 9)

Unfortunately, we keep kicking ourselves in the foot.

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Signori has all the tricks up his book.

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Sleeping dogs bark the loudest.

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He's cooking his goose deeper and deeper.

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Let’s split the baby with the bathwater.

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

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Don't beat a dead horse in the mouth.

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

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I've been getting the corpse ahead of the hearse most of my life.

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Off the cuff of my head.

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I will miss seeing him around the shoehorn.

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Idle hands are the mother of invention.

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Nail our fingers to the mast

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I looked to see what I could hear.

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Don’t cast swine before bears.

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

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We need to have photographic ears.

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I thought it might be a good idea for you to check base with him.

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The record cover was a blank slate in 1939 at Columbia Records.

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They try to balance a fine line.

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It's as plain as the egg on your face.

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